No of Vaccine Institutions closed down Vaccine Institute Year Vaccine/sera produced 1. Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Calcutta. 1901 Vaccines, sera, chemicals, synthetics & dyes (closed in 2000, being revived) 2. Vaccine Institute, Nagpur (became PSU in 1980 ) 1900 Smallpox, cholera (closed in 2000s) 3. West Bengal lab Calcutta (became PSU in 1980 ) 1980 Vaccines, Sera, synthetic dyes (closed in 2000s) 4. Bengal immunity Ltd. Calcutta 1919 TT, DT, DTP, cholera, typhoid, rabies, anti-venums (closed in 2003) 5. Smithstrain street Lab, Chennai (PSU in 1977) 1821 Vaccines and Sera (closed in 2000s) 6. Pasteur Institute of India, Kasauli 1900 Anti-Rabies (Closed) 7. The Pasteur Medical Institute, Shillong, Assam 1917 Typhid, cholera, anti-rabies treatment (closed down in 2006) 8. Vaccine Lymph Department, Belgaum 1904 Vaccine Lymph (closed in 1980s) 9. Vaccine lymph Department, Calcutta 1890s Vaccine lymph (closed in 1980s) 10. Cholera vcacne Lab, Calcutta 1890s Cholera (closed down in 1980s) 11. Pasteur Institute, Calcutta 1910 Anti-rabies (closed in 1980s) 12. The Bengal Public Health Lab, Calcutta 1900s Cholera (stopped production in mid 1980s) converted as sterility testing lab 13. The Provincial Hygiene Institute, Lucknow 1900s Cholera (closed in mid 2000s) 14. State Vaccine Institute, Patwada Nagar 1903 Vaccine Lymph, anti-rabies (closed in 2003) 15.The Vaccine Institute, Ranchi 1900 Vaccine Lymph, Cholera, anti-rabies, (closed in 2000s) 16. The School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta 1921 (No vaccine production since 1980s ) Epidemiological, diagnostic services 17. Institute of Preventive Medicine, Hyderabad 1870 Plague, Smallpox, Anti-rabies, TT (closed in 2005) 18. Vaccine Institute Vadodara 1973 Anti rabies (closed in 2007) 19. Public Health laboratory, Tiruvanthapuram 1937 Anti-rabies (no more vaccine production) Serves as immunology lab 20. Public Health Laboratory, Patna 1900 Cholera (closed in 2007) 21. Public Health laboratory, Bangalore 1900 Cholera (closed) 22. Indian Vaccine Corporation Ltd. Gurgaon 1989 Closed in 1992 23. King Institute of Prventive Medicine, Chennai 1898 Vaccine Lymph, TT, Typhoid, Cholera, (Production suspended in 2005) 24. Central Research Institute , Kasauli 1905 Typhoid, cholera anti-rabies, anti-snake venum (closed in Jan 2008) 25. BCG vaccine Lab, , Chennai 1946 BCG vaccine (suspended in 2008) 26. Pasteur Institute of Southern India, Coonoor 1907 Anti-rabies, OPV (1967-76), DTP, dT, TT (suspended production in 2008)
Fate of DBT Public Sector Undertakings set up in 1990s PSU IVCOL BIBCOL Production Targets 20 million doses of measles vaccine, 50 million doses of IPV and 40 million doses of DPTP aimed to produce OPV and plasma derived Hepatitis B vaccines indigenously by 1992 Source: DBT Annual Report 1987-88, GOI, New Delhi. Annual budget allocated to BIBCOL and IVCOL by DBT (In Rs. Lakhs) Company 1987- 88 1988- 89 1989- 90 1990 -91 1991 -92 1992 -93 1994 -95 1995 -96 1996 -97 1997 -98 1998 -99 1999 - 2000 2004 - 2005 BIBCOL 10 (for both) 550 (for both) 453 (for both) 4.09 0.02 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.0 5.31 0.05 0.05 0.0 IVCOL 0.91 0.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Source: Madhavi 2009, Journal of Health Studies, vol II (2):81-105.