Indian Railways has reduced Advance Reservation Period (ARP) booking period of rail tickets from from existing 120 days to 60 days (excluding the date of journey) from May 1, 2013....
Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories viz. Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in all disciplines/ fields...
A new health initiative “Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram” was launched by UPA Government in February 2013. It is technically called ‘Child Health Screening and Early Intervention Services’. This...
The Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) is a vaccination programme launched by the Government of India in 1985 to prevent infant and child mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases. The programme...
IDSP was launched by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with World Bank assistance in November 2004 for a period upto March 2010 to detect and respond to...
The Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) aims at correcting the imbalances in the availability of affordable healthcare facilities in the different parts of the country in general,...
DOTS, is an acronym for Directly Observed Treatment, Short course. The DOTS strategy represents the most important public health breakthrough of the decade, in terms of lives which...
Tuberculosis is caused by various strains of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body. It is spread...
Home Based New Born Care (HBNC) is a new scheme of Ministry of Health Government of India, launched to incentivize ASHA for providing Home Based Newborn Care. ASHA...
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has rolled out a new scheme for the promotion of menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls in the age group of 10-19...
