The .. government..... thinks that the market will magically produce the number of vaccines the country needs. This would explain why it has starved seven public sector vaccine manufacturing units—according to an April 17 article in Down to Earth—of any support instead of ramping up much-needed vaccine production.
The rights to produce the public sector vaccine, Covaxin, which has been developed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Institute of Virology (NIV), in collaboration with Bharat Biotech, have been given to the private company partner on an exclusive basis. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/17/how-bill-gates-set-the-stage-for-modis-disastrous-response-to-covid-19-in-india-2/
(The vaccine candidate is produced with Bharat Biotech's in-house vero cell manufacturing platform[26] that has the capacity to deliver about 300 million doses.[27] The company is in the process of setting up a second plant at its Genome Valley facility in Hyderabad to make Covaxin. The firm in collaboration with Government of Odisha is establishing another facility at Odisha Biotech Park in Bhubaneswar to commence Covaxin production by June 2022[28][29]. Besides this, they are also exploring global tie-ups for Covaxin manufacturing.[30]
In December 2020, Ocugen, Inc. entered into a partnership with Bharat Biotech to co-develop Covaxin for the U.S. market.[31][32] In January 2021, Precisa Med entered into an agreement with Bharat Biotech to supply Covaxin to Brazil.[33]
In May 2021, Haffkine Institute entered into a memorandum of understanding with Bharat Biotech and announced that the production of Covaxin by them will commence after obtaining support from the Maharashtra state government and approval from the Indian government[34] whereas Indian Immunologicals Limited (IIL) has signed a commercial agreement with Bharat Biotech for producing the drug substance, a critical component of the vaccine[35] Bharat Immunologicals and Biologicals Corporation (BIBCOL) will also manufacture the vaccine.[36] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covaxin )