Leverage TN unit for vaccine production
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin’s recent visit to the Chengalpattu complex has brought in a ray of hope.
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CM MK Stalin at the Vaccine Complex of HLL Biotech in Chengalpattu district
The state-of-the-art Integrated Vaccine Complex, sprawled over 100 acres in Chengalpattu near Chennai, has been lying idle for the past nine years, a sacrilege when the host state of Tamil Nadu is weighed down by one of the largest viral caseloads in India. The facility, set up in 2012, was to be the nodal centre for research, manufacture and supply of vaccines for Hepatitis-B, rabies and other illnesses at affordable prices under the country’s Universal Immunisation Programme. With a demand-supply ratio of Covid vaccines across the country an abysmal 6.5:1, this ‘project of national importance’ that has the capacity to manufacture more than 500 million doses annually has rolled out only hand sanitisers. This trave
Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday urged the Centre to hand over its vaccine manufacturing facility near here to the Tamil Nadu government on lease to commence vaccine production. The modern and high capacity vaccine manufacturing facility, the Integrated Vaccine Complex, is lying unutilised, Stalin said in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Centre has already invested around Rs 700 crore in this manufacturing unit which is almost complete but has been lying unutilised for want of additional funds. The recent attempt to find a private partner to run IVC has also not borne fruit as there were no bidders for it.
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 27 (ANI): Amid the country-wide shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Thursday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hand over the Integrated Vaccine Complex at Chengalpattu near Chennai owned by HLL Bio-Tech Ltd to the State government for vaccine production with the help of a private partner.
Stalin urges PM to hand over Integrated Vaccine Complex to TN on lease
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May 27, 2021 16:01 IST
“I am very keen that this modern facility must be made functional immediately in the interest of our State as well our nation. This would substantially enhance the nation’s vaccine production capacity,” the TN CM said in a letter to PM Modi
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A view of the Integrated Vaccine Complex in Chengalpattu | Photo Credit: VELANKANNI RAJ B
“I am very keen that this modern facility must be made functional immediately in the interest of our State as well our nation. This would substantially enhance the nation’s vaccine production capacity,” the TN CM said in a letter to PM Modi