Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Agency overview
Formed	1947 (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 / 28.61389; 77.20889
Annual budget	₹223,000 crore (US$28 billion) (2021-22 est.)
Ministers responsible	Mansukh L. Mandaviya Bharati Pawar, Minister of State for Health
Agency executive	Rajesh Bhushan, IAS, Health Secretary Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary
Website	https://main.mohfw.gov.in/

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.

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) is Dr Bharati Pawar .

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.

Organisation

The ministry is composed of two departments: Department of Health and Family Welfare and the Department of Health Research.

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:

• 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)
  • 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 Medical Commission
• 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
• All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata
• Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
• Central Drugs Standard Control Organization
• National Centre for Disease Control
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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:

• 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) was created in 2007 and became functional the following month. Researches on estimation of disease burden, health related affordable innovative technologies process/product development, Translational research and child health care, are included in Grant-In-Aid Scheme of DHR.

• Indian council of medical research

Department of AYUSH

Department of Indian System of Medicine and Homeopathy (ISM&H) was established in 1995. It was later renamed as Department of Ayurveda, Yoga, and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) in 2003. AYUSH focuses on research and education.

The Department of AYUSH no more falls under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, it was elevated to the Ministry of AYUSH with effect 9 November 2014.

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		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		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	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		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		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		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	1 year, 315 days

List of Ministers of State

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Minister of state	Portrait	Political party		Term		Years	Prime Minister	Political Party
Faggan Singh Kulaste		Bharatiya Janata Party		5 July 2016	3 September 2017	1 year, 60 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
Anupriya Patel		Apna Dal (Sonelal)		5 July 2016	30 May 2019	2 years, 329 days		Apna Dal (Sonelal)
Ashwini Kumar Choubey		Bharatiya Janata Party		3 September 2017	7 July 2021	3 years, 307 days		Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharati Pawar				7 July 2021	Incumbent	1 year, 315 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

External links

• Official website
• Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Official website
• National Health Portal (Available in English, Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil and Punjabi)