Bhubaneswar, February 18: 5T and Nabin Odisha Chairman VK Pandian on Sunday visited the Sapigen Biologix Vaccine plant at Odisha Biotech Park, Andharua, 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 sub units and interacted with the management and employees and have instructed all Government agencies to assist in the commissioning of the plant within next three months.
This plant is coming up with an investment of Rs 1,500 crore, led by Dr Krishna Ella of Bharat Biotech park fame.
This state-of-the-art plant is creating 1,500 direct employment and most of them 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 for Odisha in the field of biotechnology.
Pandian has assured all help from the Government and also informed of the recently approved Biotechnology policy which has been approved by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
He expressed confidence that with this large anchor manufacturing plant, many other complementary biotechnology related product companies will get attracted to the Odisha Biotech Park, brining major investments and creating jobs in this speciality field.
Industries Department Principal Secretary Hemant Sharma, Electronics and Information Technology Department Principal Secretary Manoj Mishra, IDCO MD Bhupinder Punia along with other officials were present.
