Stalin urges PM to hand over Integrated Vaccine Complex to TN on lease

“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

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention for handing over the assets of the Integrated Vaccine Complex (IVC) in Chengalpattu, owned by HLL Bio-Tech Limited (HBL) under the Union Ministry of Health, to the Tamil Nadu government on lease so that the facility can be put to use at the earliest. In his letter to Mr. Modi on Wednesday, Mr. Stalin pointed out that the modern and high-capacity vaccine manufacturing facility in Chengalpattu district was lying un-utilized. “I wish to propose that the assets of IVC may be handed over to the State [Tamil Nadu] government on lease, without any past liabilities and with full operational freedom. The State government will identify a suitable private partner immediately and will make all efforts to commence vaccine production at the earliest,” Mr. Stalin said.