The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, also known by its abbreviation MoHFW, is an Indian government ministry charged with health policy in India. It is also responsible for all government programs relating to family planning in India.[2][3]
 Branch of Government of India | |
 Ministry of Health & Family Welfare | |
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1947 |
| Jurisdiction | Government of India |
| Headquarters | Cabinet Secretariat Raisina Hill, New Delhi 28°36′50″N 77°12′32″E / 28.61389°N 77.20889°E |
| Annual budget | ₹90,658 crore (US$11 billion) (2024-25) |
| Ministers responsible |
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| Agency executive |
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| Website | https://main.mohfw.gov.in/ [1] |
The Minister of Health and Family Welfare holds cabinet rank as a member of the Council of Ministers. The current minister is Mansukh L. Mandaviya, while the current Minister of State for health (MOS: assistant to Minister i.e. currently assistant to Mansukh L. Mandaviya) are Bharati Pawar and S. P. Singh Baghel .[4]
Since 1955 the Ministry regularly publishes the Indian Pharmacopoeia through the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), an autonomous body for setting standards for drugs, pharmaceuticals and healthcare devices and technologies in India.[5]
Organisation
The ministry is composed of two departments and six subordinate offices. Department of Health and Family Welfare and Department of Health Research and Directorate General of Health Services.[6]
Directorate General of Health Services
The Directorate General of Health Services is a department responsible for technical knowledge concerning Public Health, Medical Education and Health Care. Organizations and Institutes under DGHS are:[citation needed]
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- Vardhman Mahavir Medical College
- Safdarjung Hospital
- Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
- National Centre for Disease Control
- All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health
- Central Research Institute, Kasauli
- Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi
Department of Health
The Department of Health deals with health care, including awareness campaigns, immunisation campaigns, preventive medicine, and public health. Bodies under the administrative control of this department are:[citation needed]
- National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) (see HIV/AIDS in India)
- 14 National Health Programmes
- National AIDS Control Programme (AIDS) Department Of Aids Control (National AIDS Control Organisation) (Details About Aids)
- National Cancer Control Programme (cancer) (since 1985)[7]
- National Filaria Control Programme (filariasis)
- National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme (iodine deficiency)
- National Leprosy Eradication Programme (leprosy)
- National Mental Health Programme (mental health)
- National Programme for Control of Blindness (blindness)
- National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness (deafness)
- National Tobacco Control Programme (tobacco control)
- National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) (vector-borne disease)
- Pilot Programme on Prevention and Control of Diabetes, CVD and Stroke (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke)
- National Programme on Climate Change and Human Health (Cimate change)
- Revised National TB Control Programme (tuberculosis)
- Universal Immunisation Programme
- National Tele Mental Health Programme - Tele MANAS[8](mental health)
- National Medical Commission
- Under-Graduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB)
- Post-Graduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB)
- Medical Assessment and Rating Board
- Ethics and Medical Registration Board
- Dental Council of India
- Pharmacy Council of India
- Indian Nursing Council
- All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), Mysuru
- All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AIIPMR), Mumbai
- Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
- Central Drugs Standard Control Organization
- National Centre for Disease Control
Department of Family Welfare
The Department of Family Welfare (FW) is responsible for aspects relating to family welfare, especially in reproductive health, maternal health, pediatrics, information, education and communications; cooperation with NGOs and international aid groups; and rural health services. The Department of Family Welfare is responsible for:[citation needed]
- 18 Population Research Centres (PRCs) at six universities and six other institutions across 17 states
- National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW), Delhi
- International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai
- Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow
Department of Health Research
The Department of Health Research (DHR) is responsible for formulation, support, coordination and promotion of biomedical research in India [9][10]
- Indian Council of Medical Research
- National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad
- National Animal Resource Facility for Biomedical Research (NARF-BR), Hyderabad
- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT), Chennai
- National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE), Chennai
- National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research (NICPR), Noida
- National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR), Delhi
- Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (RMRIMS), Patna
- National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (NIRRH), Mumbai
- National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune
- National Institute of Traditional Medicine (NITM), Belagavi
- Microbial Containment Complex (MCC), Pune
- National AIDS Research Institute (NARI), Pune
- National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH), Ahmedabad
- National Institute of Pathology (NIP), Delhi
- National Institute of Medical Statistics (NIMS), Delhi
- Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC), Puducherry
- National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata
- National Institute for Research in Tribal Health (NIRTH), Jabalpur
- National Center for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR), Bengaluru
- Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Center (BMHRC), Bhopal
- National Institute for Research in Environmental Health (NIREH), Bhopal
- National JALMA Institute for Leprosy & Other Mycobacterial Diseases (NJILOMD), Agra
- Centre for Research in Medical Entomology (CRME), Madurai
- National Institute of Immunohaemotology (NIIH), Mumbai
- Enterovirus Research Centre (ERC), Mumbai
- Genetic Research Centre (GRC), Mumbai
- National Institute for Implementation Research on Non-Communicable Diseases (NIIRNCD), Jodhpur
- Regional Medical Research Center (RMRC), Port Blair
- Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Gorakhpur
- Regional Medical Research Center (RMRC), Bhubaneswar
- Regional Medical Research Centre, Dibrugarh
- ICMR Virus Unit (IVU), Kolkata
- Institute of Reproductive Medicine (IRM), Kolkata
List of ministers
| No | Portrait | Name | Term of office | Prime Minister | Political party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur | 15 August 1947 | 16 April 1957 | 9 years, 244 days | Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian National Congress | |
| 2 | D. P. Karmakar (MoS) | 17 April 1957 | 9 April 1962 | 4 years, 357 days | ||||
| 3 |  | Sushila Nayar (MoS) | 10 April 1962 | 13 March 1967 | 4 years, 337 days | Indira Gandhi | ||
| 4 | Sripati Chandrasekhar (MoS) | 13 March 1967 | 14 November 1967 | 246 days | ||||
| 5 | Satya Narayan Sinha | 14 November 1967 | 14 February 1969 | 1 year, 92 days | ||||
| 6 | Kodardas Kalidas Shah | 14 February 1969 | 19 May 1971 | 2 years, 94 days | ||||
| 7 | Uma Shankar Dikshit | 19 May 1971 | 5 February 1973 | 1 year, 262 days | ||||
| 8 |  | R. K. Khadilkar (MoS) | 5 February 1973 | 9 November 1973 | 277 days | |||
| 9 |  | Karan Singh | 9 November 1973 | 24 March 1977 | 3 years, 135 days | |||
| 10 |  | Raj Narain | 28 March 1977 | 1 July 1978 | 1 year, 95 days | Morarji Desai | Janata Party | |
| 11 |  | Morarji Desai | 1 July 1978 | 24 January 1979 | 207 days | |||
| 12 |  | Rabi Ray | 28 July 1979 | 14 January 1980 | 170 days | Charan Singh | Janata Party (Secular) | |
| 13 | B. Shankaranand | 16 January 1980 | 31 December 1984 | 4 years, 350 days | Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi | Indian National Congress | ||
| 14 | Mohsina Kidwai | 31 December 1984 | 24 June 1986 | 1 year, 175 days | Rajiv Gandhi | |||
| 15 | (2).jpg) | P. V. Narasimha Rao | 24 June 1986 | 14 February 1988 | 1 year, 235 days | |||
| 16 |  | Motilal Vora | 14 February 1988 | 24 January 1989 | 345 days | |||
| 17 | .jpg) | Ram Niwas Mirdha | 24 January 1989 | 4 July 1989 | 161 days | |||
| 18 | Rafique Alam (Independent Charge) | 4 July 1989 | 2 December 1989 | 151 days | ||||
| 19 |  | Nilamani Routray | 6 December 1989 | 23 April 1990 | 138 days | V. P. Singh | Janata Dal | |
| 20 | Rasheed Masood (Independent Charge) | 23 April 1990 | 10 November 1990 | 201 days | ||||
| 21 | Shakeelur Rehman | 21 November 1990 | 20 February 1991 | 91 days | Chandra Shekhar | Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) | ||
| 22 |  | Chandra Shekhar | 20 February 1991 | 21 June 1991 | 121 days | |||
| 23 | M. L. Fotedar | 21 June 1991 | 17 January 1993 | 1 year, 210 days | P. V. Narasimha Rao | Indian National Congress | ||
| 24 | B. Shankaranand | 18 January 1993 | 22 December 1994 | 1 year, 338 days | ||||
| 25 | | P. V. Narasimha Rao | 23 December 1994 | 11 June 1995 | 171 days | |||
| 26 | A. R. Antulay | 11 June 1995 | 16 May 1996 | 340 days | ||||
| 27 | Sartaj Singh | 16 May 1996 | 1 June 1996 | 16 days | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 28 |  | H. D. Deve Gowda | 1 June 1996 | 29 June 1996 | 28 days | H. D. Deve Gowda | Janata Dal | |
| 29 | Saleem Iqbal Shervani | 29 June 1996 | 9 June 1997 | 345 days | ||||
| 30 |  | Inder Kumar Gujral | 9 June 1997 | 19 March 1998 | 283 days | Inder Kumar Gujral | ||
| 31 | Dalit Ezhilmalai (Independent Charge) | 19 March 1998 | 14 August 1999 | 1 year, 148 days | Atal Bihari Vajpayee | Pattali Makkal Katchi | ||
| 32 | A. K. Patel (Independent Charge) | 16 August 1999 | 13 October 1999 | 58 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | |||
| 33 | N. T. Shanmugam (Independent Charge) | 13 October 1999 | 27 May 2000 | 227 days | Pattali Makkal Katchi | |||
| 34 | _in_New_Delhi_on_January_15,_2004.jpg) | C. P. Thakur | 27 May 2000 | 1 July 2002 | 2 years, 35 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 35 |  | Shatrughan Sinha | 1 July 2002 | 29 January 2003 | 212 days | |||
| 36 | _(cropped).jpg) | Sushma Swaraj | 29 January 2003 | 22 May 2004 | 1 year, 114 days | |||
| 37 |  | Anbumani Ramadoss | 22 May 2004 | 29 March 2009 | 4 years, 311 days | Manmohan Singh | Pattali Makkal Katchi | |
| 38 |  | Panabaka Lakshmi (Independent Charge) | 29 March 2009 | 22 May 2009 | 54 days | Indian National Congress | ||
| 39 |  | Ghulam Nabi Azad | 28 May 2009 | 26 May 2014 | 4 years, 363 days | |||
| 40 |  | Harsh Vardhan | 26 May 2014 | 9 November 2014 | 167 days | Narendra Modi | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 41 | .jpg) | Jagat Prakash Nadda | 9 November 2014 | 30 May 2019 | 4 years, 202 days | |||
| (40) | | Harsh Vardhan | 30 May 2019 | 7 July 2021 | 2 years, 38 days | |||
| 42 |  | Mansukh Mandaviya | 7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 298 days | |||
List of ministers of state
| Minister of state | Portrait | Term | Years | Prime Minister | Political Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faggan Singh Kulaste | .jpg) | 5 July 2016 | 3 September 2017 | 1 year, 60 days | Narendra Modi | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Anupriya Patel | _2018_and_launch_of_the_National_Health_Resource_Repository_(NHRR),_in_New_Delhi.JPG) | 5 July 2016 | 30 May 2019 | 2 years, 329 days | Apna Dal (Sonelal) | ||
| Ashwini Kumar Choubey |  | 3 September 2017 | 7 July 2021 | 3 years, 307 days | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| Bharati Pawar |  | 7 July 2021 | Incumbent | 2 years, 298 days | |||
| S. P. Singh Baghel |  | 18 May 2023 | Incumbent | 348 days | |||
See also
- Mission Indradhanush
- Arogyavani
- Integrated disease surveillance program (IDSP)
- Pradhan Mantri Digital Health Mission (PMDHM)
- The Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act (THOTA)
- Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
References
External links
- Official website [1]
- Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Official website
- National Health Portal (Available in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil and Punjabi)
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