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September 16, 2025

Daily Current Affairs/ PCS J /APO/PCS -16 Sep 2025

Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 17 September 2025.

  • Jointly implemented by:

    • Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW)

    • Ministry of Women & Child Development (MoWCD)

Objective

  • To improve women’s health and nutrition, ensuring healthier families and communities.

  • Provide preventive, promotive, and curative health services to women, adolescent girls, and children.

  • Strengthen nutrition awareness and lifestyle changes through community participation.

Key Goals

  1. Early detection and screening for:

  • Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
  • Cancers (breast, cervical, oral)
  • Anaemia and malnutrition
  • Tuberculosis and sickle cell disease
  1. Maternal and Child Health Care

    • Antenatal check-ups, safe deliveries, immunisation.

  2. Nutrition Improvement

    • Balanced diet promotion, recipe demonstrations, and counselling during Poshan Maah (Nutrition Month).

  3. Awareness & Lifestyle Changes

  • Menstrual hygiene education.
  • Mental health counselling.
  • Obesity and lifestyle disease prevention.
  • Reducing excess sugar, oil, and salt consumption.

Campaign Period & Scale

  • Duration: 17 September – 2 October 2025

  • Coverage: Over 1 lakh health camps nationwide.

  • Daily health services will be provided in government hospitals and health centres.

Key Features

Area Focus
Health Camps Screening, check-ups, specialist services like gynaecology, paediatrics, ENT, dental, mental health.
Community Involvement ASHAs, Anganwadi workers, ANMs, Self-Help Groups, youth volunteers, Panchayati Raj institutions.
Digital Integration Link beneficiaries to Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts (ABHA) and PM-JAY.
Whole-of-Government Approach Participation from various ministries such as AYUSH, Education, Rural Development, Tribal Affairs, and Social Justice.
Jan Bhagidari Encourage private hospitals and NGOs to participate.

Significance:

  • Addresses women’s health holistically, recognising that a healthy woman leads to a strong family and society.

  • Integrates nutrition and healthcare, making it India’s largest outreach campaign for women and children.

  • Supports the goal of a Developed India (Viksit Bharat) by 2047.


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