Bhubaneswar: 5T and Nabin Odisha Chairman VK Pandian on Sunday visited the Sapigen Biologix Vaccine plant at Odisha Biotech Park, at Andharua in Bhubaneswar.
The plant, which is in its final phase of commissioning, will have a capacity to produce 2.4 crore doses of different vaccines per day. With its full capacity, this facility in Odisha will be the biggest vaccine-producing plant in the country.
Pandian visited all the subunits and interacted with the management and employees and instructed all government agencies to assist in the commissioning of the plant within the next three months.
This plant is coming up with an investment of Rs 1500 crore, led by Dr Krishna Ella of Bharat Biotech Park fame.
This state-of-the-art plant is creating 1,500 direct employment opportunities and most of the employees are being hired locally from Odisha. The plant plans to produce 15 plus different vaccines for diseases like cholera, malaria, etc.
The variety of vaccines produced in Bhubaneswar will be supplied to many parts of the world and will strengthen the name of Odisha in the biotechnology field. This project is in complete sync with the motto of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Odisha that ‘Every Life is Precious’. With vaccines from here, millions of lives will be safeguarded around the world.
Pandian has assured all help from the state government and also informed of the recently approved biotechnology policy, which Naveen Patnaik’s cabinet has approved. He expressed confidence that with this large anchor manufacturing plant, many other complementary biotechnology-related product companies will be attracted to the Odisha Biotech Park, bringing major investments and creating jobs in this specialty field.
During the inspection, he was accompanied by Principal Secretary (Industries) Hemant Sharma, Principal Secretary (E&IT) Manoj Mishra, MD (IDCO) Bhupinder Punia, and other officials.
