Hon'ble Prime Minister
Narendra Modi visits
Serum Institute of India
Seen above (from left to right) : Hon'ble Union Minister
Shri. Prakash Javadekar, NCP Chief Shri. Sharad Pawar, Dr. Cyrus
Poonawalla, Mr. Adar Poonawalla, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India
Shri. Narendra Modi, His Excellency Governor of Maharashtra Shri.
C Vidyasagar Rao, Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri. Devendra
Fadnavis, Hon'ble Minister of Food & Drugs Administration, Govt.
of Maharashtra Shri. Girish Bapat.
Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi visited the Serum
Institute of India on Sunday 13th November and met with the
Chairman & Managing Director Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla and CEO Mr. Adar
Poonawalla.
The Prime Minister expressed appreciation over the largest vaccine
manufacturing facility in the world that makes low cost vaccines
to protect children and encouraged the Poonawalla's to make
vaccines against diseases at affordable rates and make them
available to all.
The Prime Minister also evinced interest in the "Adar Poonawalla
Clean City" initiative launched by the Poonawalla Group and
mentioned that it was a good project under the Swachh Bharat
Mission and that the initiative should be a model for other
cities.
