Govt Regional Medical Research Centre Port Blair (RMRC Port Blair) Jobs 2016 - Sarkari Naukri

The Centre was established on 1st of April 1983 with the mandate to conduct biomedical research on communicable and non-communicable diseases prevalent in Andaman and Nicobar Islands with special emphasis on the health problems of the indigenous tribes and to develop technical manpower locally. A field station of the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata was functioning at Port Blair until 1983, when it was merged with the RMRC. The Centre started functioning in a rented building in Farzand Ali Market at Aberdeen Bazar, Port Blair. The Centre at that time had minimum laboratory facilities for clinical research.

The necessity for the Centre to have its own building was soon recognized. The Andaman and Nicobar Administration was approached for allotment of land and subsequently land was allotted at Dollygunj. The foundation stone for the new office-cum-laboratory complex of the Centre was laid by the then Lt. Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Shri Vakkom Purushothaman on 23 December 1993 and the construction began in 1994.