India turned pandemic’s problem into alternative: Prakash Javadekar

Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday mentioned India has change into a worldwide chief in vaccine manufacturing and efficiently turned the pandemic’s problem into a chance.
The minister mentioned over 15 lakh healthcare staff have been inoculated within the first week of the vaccine rollout. “Last year started with coronavirus, this year started with the vaccine. India has become a global leader in vaccine manufacturing and has successfully converted the challenge of the Covid-19 outbreak into an opportunity. Today, wherever I go across the world and say I am from Pune, they say Poonawalla vaccine,” Javadekar mentioned.
The minister was attending the renaming ceremony of Camp Education Society’s highschool and junior faculty the place he congratulated the chairman of vaccine producer Serum Institute of India, Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, who was current on the event.
He termed the indigenous making of Covid-19 vaccines the realisation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat mission.

The faculty and junior faculty was renamed after Dr Poonawalla who donated Rs 6 crore to the institute.
Stating that analysis and innovation are the place the way forward for the nation lies, the Union minister mentioned youths want to seek out options and never cease at issues.
“Our new education policy lays a great emphasis on research. Earlier, Pune University and NCL both were in the same vicinity but worked without collaboration. Thanks to the new policy changes, research and academics work together. That’s where real innovation will emerge,” he added.