CISF to provide security to Bharat Biotech campus

Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will provide security to the Bharat Biotech campus located in Hyderabad, Telangana from June 14.

Hyderabad: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will provide security to the Bharat Biotech campus located in Hyderabad, Telangana. The registered office and the manufacturing plant of the company located at Genome Valley in the Shameerpet area will be secured by a team of 64 armed personnel of the CISF. CISF team will be headed by an Inspector level officer and will resume its duties of providing security from June 14, CISF Deputy Inspector General and Chief Spokesperson Anil Pandey told the media.

The Union Home Ministry has recently sanctioned the deployment of CISF at this facility. According to an official, "The organisation (Bharat Biotech) is an important facility when it comes to ensuring medical and health security of the country and it obviously faces a terror threat from various inimical elements. The CISF, hence, has been tasked to secure the Bharat Biotech facility in Hyderabad."

Bharat Biotech's Covaxin is among the two approved India made vaccines that are currently available in the market. Bharat Biotech has announced that it will accelerate the production of Covaxin vaccines in the coming days to meet India's growing vaccination requirements.

The CISF was allowed to secure private installations of public importance following the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, where five-star luxury hotels and a Jewish Chabad house were targeted by members of the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. CISF guards about 10 such facilities across the country, including the Infosys campuses in Pune and Mysuru, the Reliance IT Park in Navi Mumbai and Yoga exponent Ramdev's Patanjali factory premises in Uttarakhand's Haridwar.