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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

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Government ministry of India

"MoHFW" redirects here. For MoHFW of Bangladesh, seeMinistry of Health and Family Welfare (Bangladesh). For others, seeMinistry of Health & Family Welfare (disambiguation).

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Agency overview
Branch of the Indian government
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

Formed	15 August 1947; 78 years ago (1947-08-15)
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Cabinet Secretariat,Raisina Hill,New Delhi 28°36′50″N77°12′32″E / 28.61389°N 77.20889°E /28.61389; 77.20889
Annual budget	₹99,859 crore (US$12 billion) (2025–26)
Ministers responsible	J. P. Nadda,Cabinet Minister Anupriya Patel,Ministers of state Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav,Ministers of state
Agency executives	Punya Salila Srivastava,IAS,Secretary of the Department of Health & Family Welfare Rajiv Bahl,Secretary of the Department of Health Research Atul Goel (CHS),Director General of Health Services L S Changsan (IAS),CEO of the National Health Authority
Child agencies	Department of Health & Family Welfare Department of Health Research
Website	Official website

TheMinistry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) is anIndian government ministry charged withhealth policy in India. It is also responsible for all government programs relating tofamily planning in India.^[1]^[2]

The Minister of Health and Family Welfare holdscabinet rank as a member of theCouncil of Ministers. The current minister isJagat Prakash Nadda, while the current Minister of State for health (MOS: assistant to Minister i.e. currently assistant to J. P. Nadda) areAnupriya Patel andPrataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav.

Since 1955 the Ministry regularly publishes theIndian Pharmacopoeia through the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), an autonomous body for setting standards for drugs, pharmaceuticals and healthcare devices and technologies in India.^[3]

Organisation

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The ministry is composed of various departments and organisation.Directorate General of Health Services (India) and Department of Health and Family Welfare and Department of Health Research.^[4]

Directorate General of Health Services

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Main article:Directorate General of Health Services (India)

TheDirectorate General of Health Services (DGHS) is a department responsible for technical knowledge concerning Public Health, Medical Education and Health Care.^[5]

National Medical Library

Department of Health

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Food safety

Terms
Foodborne illness Good manufacturing practice (GMP) Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) Hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls (HARPC) Critical control point
Critical factors
FAT TOM pH Water activity (a_w)
Bacterial pathogens
Clostridium botulinum Escherichia coli Listeria Salmonella Vibrio cholerae Cronobacter spp
Viral pathogens
Enterovirus Hepatitis A Norovirus Rotavirus
Parasitic pathogens
Cryptosporidium Entamoeba histolytica Giardia Trichinella
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The Department of Health deals withhealth care, including awareness campaigns,immunisation campaigns,preventive medicine, andpublic health. Bodies under the administrative control of this department are:^{[citation needed]}

National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) (seeHIV/AIDS in India)
National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences(NBE)
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)^[6]
- 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 (Climate change)
- Revised National TB Control Programme (tuberculosis)
- Universal Immunisation Programme
- National Tele Mental Health Programme - Tele MANAS^[7](mental health)
National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore
National Medical Commission(NMC)
- 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

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The Department of Family Welfare (FW) is responsible for aspects relating tofamily welfare, especially inreproductive health,maternal health,pediatrics, information, education and communications; cooperation withNGOs andinternational aid groups; and rural health services. The Department of Family Welfare is responsible for:^{[citation needed]}

18 Population Research Centres (PRCs) at sixuniversities and six other institutions across 17states
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

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The Department of Health Research (DHR) is responsible for formulation, support, coordination and promotion of biomedical research in India^[8]^[9]

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

Think Tank/Other Autonomous Bodies

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- National Health Systems Resource Centre, a think-tank.
- Central Medical Services Society
- Pasteur Institute of India

Cabinet Ministers

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Portrait	Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
Portrait	Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	From	To	Period	Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
Minister of Health
	Rajkumari Amrit KaurDStJ (1887–1964) MP forCentral Provinces and Berar, till 1952 MP forMandi Mahasu, from 1952	15 August 1947	17 April 1957	9 years, 244 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru I		Jawaharlal Nehru
		15 August 1947	17 April 1957	9 years, 244 days		Nehru II
	D. P. Karmarkar (1902–1991) MP forDharwad North (Minister of State)	17 April 1957	9 April 1962	4 years, 357 days		Nehru III
	Sushila Nayyar (1914–2001) MP forJhansi (Minister of State)	10 April 1962	24 January 1966	2 years, 145 days		Nehru IV
						Nanda I		Gulzarilal Nanda
						Shastri		Lal Bahadur Shastri
						Nanda II		Gulzarilal Nanda
Minister of Health and Family Planning
	Sushila Nayyar (1914–2001) MP forJhansi (Minister of State)	24 January 1966	13 March 1967	323 days	Indian National Congress	Indira I		Indira Gandhi
	Sripati Chandrasekhar (1918–2001) Rajya Sabha MP forTamil Nadu (Minister of State)	13 March 1967	14 November 1967	246 days		Indira II
	Satya Narayan Sinha (1900–1983) MP forDarbhanga	14 November 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 92 days
	Kodardas Kalidas Shah (1908–1986) Rajya Sabha MP forGujarat	14 February 1969	19 May 1971	2 years, 94 days	Indian National Congress (R)
	Uma Shankar Dikshit (1901–1991) Rajya Sabha MP forUttar Pradesh	19 May 1971	5 February 1973	1 year, 262 days		Indira III
	Raghunath Keshav Khadilkar (1905–1979) MP forKhed (Minister of State)	5 February 1973	9 November 1973	277 days
	Karan Singh (born 1931) MP forUdhampur	9 November 1973	24 March 1977	3 years, 135 days
Minister of Health and Family Welfare
	Raj Narain (1917–1986) MP forAllahabad	28 March 1977	1 July 1978	1 year, 95 days	Janata Party	Desai		Morarji Desai
	Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP forSurat (Prime Minister)	1 July 1978	24 January 1979	207 days
	Rabi Ray (1926–2017) Rajya Sabha MP forOdisha	25 January 1979	15 July 1979	171 days
	Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP forSurat (Prime Minister)	16 July 1979	28 July 1979	12 days
	Rabi Ray (1926–2017) Rajya Sabha MP forOdisha	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan Singh		Charan Singh
	B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP forChikkodi	16 January 1980	31 October 1984	4 years, 350 days	Indian National Congress	Indira IV		Indira Gandhi
	B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP forChikkodi	4 November 1984	31 December 1984	4 years, 350 days		Rajiv I		Rajiv Gandhi
	Mohsina Kidwai (born 1932) MP forMeerut	31 December 1984	24 June 1986	1 year, 175 days		Rajiv II
	Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP forAmethi (Prime Minister)	24 June 1986	14 February 1988	1 year, 235 days
	Motilal Vora (1928–2020) Rajya Sabha MP forMadhya Pradesh	14 February 1988	24 January 1989	345 days
	Ram Niwas Mirdha (1924–2010) Rajya Sabha MP forRajasthan (Minister of State, I/C)	24 January 1989	4 July 1989	161 days
	Rafique Alam (1929–2011) Rajya Sabha MP forBihar (Minister of State, I/C)	4 July 1989	2 December 1989	151 days
	Nilamani Routray (1920–2004) MP forPuri	6 December 1989	23 April 1990	138 days	Janata Dal	Vishwanath		V. P. Singh
	Rasheed Masood (1947–2020) MP forSaharanpur (Minister of State, I/C)	23 April 1990	10 November 1990	201 days	Janata Dal	Vishwanath		V. P. Singh
	Shakeelur Rehman (1931–2016) MP forDarbhanga	21 November 1990	20 February 1991	91 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar		Chandra Shekhar
	Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP forBallia (Prime Minister)	20 February 1991	21 June 1991	121 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar		Chandra Shekhar
	Makhan Lal Fotedar (1932–2017) Rajya Sabha MP forUttar Pradesh	21 June 1991	17 January 1993	1 year, 210 days	Indian National Congress	Rao		P. V. Narasimha Rao
	B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP forChikkodi	18 January 1993	22 December 1994	1 year, 338 days
	P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP forNandyal (Prime Minister)	23 December 1994	11 June 1995	170 days
	A. R. Antulay (1929–2014) MP forKolaba	11 June 1995	16 May 1996	340 days
	Sartaj Singh (born 1940) MP forNarmadapuram	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee I		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
	H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) Unelected (Prime Minister)	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	Janata Dal	Deve Gowda		H. D. Deve Gowda
	Saleem Iqbal Shervani (born 1953) MP forBadaun (Minister of State, I/C)	29 June 1996	9 June 1997	345 days	Samajwadi Party	Deve Gowda		H. D. Deve Gowda
		29 June 1996	9 June 1997	345 days	Samajwadi Party	Gujral		Inder Kumar Gujral
	Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP forBihar (Prime Minister)	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	283 days	Janata Dal	Gujral		Inder Kumar Gujral
	Dalit Ezhilmalai (1945–2020) MP forChidambaram (Minister of State, I/C)	20 March 1998	14 August 1999	1 year, 0 days	Pattali Makkal Katchi	Vajpayee II		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
	Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP forLucknow (Prime Minister)	14 August 1999	16 August 1999	2 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
	A. K. Patel (born 1931) MP forMehsena (Minister of State, I/C)	16 August 1999	13 October 1999	58 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
	N. T. Shanmugam MP forVellore (Minister of State, I/C)	13 October 1999	27 May 2000	227 days	Pattali Makkal Katchi	Vajpayee III
	C. P. Thakur (born 1931) MP forPatna	27 May 2000	1 July 2002	2 years, 35 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
	Shatrughan Sinha (born 1946) Rajya Sabha MP forBihar	1 July 2002	29 January 2003	212 days
	Sushma Swaraj (1952–2019) Rajya Sabha MP forUttarakhand	29 January 2003	22 May 2004	1 year, 114 days
	Anbumani Ramadoss (born 1968) Rajya Sabha MP forTamil Nadu	23 May 2004	29 March 2009	4 years, 310 days	Pattali Makkal Katchi	Manmohan I		Manmohan Singh
	Panabaka Lakshmi (born 1958) MP forNellore (Minister of State, I/C)	29 March 2009	22 May 2009	54 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I
	Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 1949) Rajya Sabha MP forJammu and Kashmir	29 May 2009	26 May 2014	4 years, 362 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan II
	Harsh Vardhan (born 1954) MP forChandni Chowk	27 May 2014	9 November 2014	99 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I		Narendra Modi
	Jagat Prakash Nadda (born 1960) Rajya Sabha MP forHimachal Pradesh	9 November 2014	30 May 2019	4 years, 202 days		Modi I
	Harsh Vardhan (born 1954) MP forChandni Chowk	31 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 37 days		Modi II
	Mansukh Mandaviya (born 1972) Rajya Sabha MP forGujarat	7 July 2021	9 June 2024	2 years, 338 days		Modi II
	Jagat Prakash Nadda (born 1960) Rajya Sabha MP forHimachal Pradesh	10 June 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 169 days		Modi III

Ministers of State

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Portrait	Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
Portrait	Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	From	To	Period	Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
Minister of State for Health and Family Planning
	Sripati Chandrasekhar (1918–2001) Rajya Sabha MP forTamil Nadu	14 November 1967	26 June 1970	2 years, 224 days	Indian National Congress	Indira II		Indira Gandhi
	Bayya Suryanarayana Murthy (1906–1979) MP forKakinada	18 February 1969	13 March 1971	2 years, 23 days
	Parimal Ghosh (1917–1985) MP forGhatal	26 June 1970	18 March 1971	265 days
	D. P. Chattopadhyaya (1933–2022) Rajya Sabha MP forWest Bengal	2 May 1971	5 February 1973	1 year, 279 days		Indira III
	Ram Sewak Chowdhary (born 1927) Rajya Sabha MP forUttar Pradesh	1 December 1975	24 March 1977	1 year, 113 days		Indira III
Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare
	Jagadambi Prasad Yadav (1925–2002) MP forGodda	14 August 1977	26 January 1979	1 year, 165 days	Janata Party	Desai		Morarji Desai
	Nihar Ranjan Laskar (born 1932) MP forKarimganj	14 January 1980	15 January 1982	2 years, 1 day	Indian National Congress	Indira IV		Indira Gandhi
	Mohsina Kidwai (born 1932) MP forMeerut	29 January 1983	2 August 1984	1 year, 186 days		Indira IV		Indira Gandhi
	Yogendra Makwana (born 1933) Rajya Sabha MP forGujarat (Health)	31 December 1984	25 September 1985	268 days		Rajiv II		Rajiv Gandhi
	Saroj Khaparde Rajya Sabha MP forMaharashtra	12 May 1986	4 July 1989	3 years, 53 days		Rajiv II		Rajiv Gandhi
	Taradevi Siddhartha (born 1953) MP forChikmagalur	26 June 1991	18 January 1993	1 year, 206 days		Rao		P. V. Narasimha Rao
	K. V. Thangkabalu (born 1950) MP forSalem	19 January 1993	16 May 1996	3 years, 118 days
	C. Silvera (1935–2016) MP forMizoram	17 February 1994	15 September 1995	1 year, 210 days
	Paban Singh Ghatowar (born 1950) MP forDibrugarh (Indian System of Medicines and Homoeopathy)	15 September 1995	16 May 1996	244 days
	Saleem Iqbal Shervani (born 1953) MP forBadaun	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	Samajwadi Party	Deve Gowda		H. D. Deve Gowda
	A. Raja (born 1963) MP forPerambalur	30 September 2000	21 December 2003	3 years, 82 days	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Vajpayee III		Atal Bihari Vajpayee
	Vallabhbhai Kathiria (born 1954) MP forRajkot	29 January 2003	30 January 2003	1 day	Bharatiya Janata Party
	Vallabhbhai Kathiria (born 1954) MP forRajkot	9 January 2004	22 May 2004	134 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
	Panabaka Lakshmi (born 1958) MP forNellore	23 May 2004	29 March 2009	4 years, 310 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I		Manmohan Singh
	S. Gandhiselvan (born 1963) MP forNamakkal	28 May 2009	20 March 2013	3 years, 296 days	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Manmohan II
	Dinesh Trivedi (born 1950) MP forBarrackpore	28 May 2009	12 July 2011	2 years, 45 days	Trinamool Congress
	Sudip Bandyopadhyay (born 1952) MP forKolkata Uttar	12 July 2011	22 September 2012	1 year, 72 days	Trinamool Congress
	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury (born 1938) MP forMaldaha Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency	28 October 2012	26 May 2014	1 year, 210 days	Indian National Congress
	Santosh Chowdhary (born 1944) MP forHoshiarpur	17 June 2013	26 May 2014	343 days	Indian National Congress
	Shripad Naik (born 1952) MP forNorth Goa	9 November 2014	5 July 2016	1 year, 239 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I		Narendra Modi
	Faggan Singh Kulaste (born 1959) MP forMandla	5 July 2016	3 September 2017	1 year, 60 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
	Anupriya Patel (born 1981) MP forMirzapur	5 July 2016	30 May 2019	2 years, 329 days	Apna Dal (Soneylal)
	Ashwini Kumar Choubey (born 1953) MP forBuxar	3 September 2017	7 July 2021	3 years, 307 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
	Ashwini Kumar Choubey (born 1953) MP forBuxar	3 September 2017	7 July 2021	3 years, 307 days		Modi II
	Bharati Pawar (born 1978) MP forDindori	7 July 2021	9 June 2024	2 years, 338 days
	S. P. Singh Baghel (born 1960) MP forAgra	18 May 2023	9 June 2024	1 year, 22 days
	Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav (born 1960) MP forBuldhana	10 June 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 169 days	Shiv Sena	Modi III
	Anupriya Patel (born 1981) MP forMirzapur	10 June 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 169 days	Apna Dal (Soneylal)	Modi III

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^Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India., Department of Health Research."GRANT-IN-AID SCHEME FOR INTER-SECTORAL CONVERGENCE & COORDINATION FOR PROMOTION AND GUIDANCE ON HEALTH RESEARCH".www.dhrschemes.in/. Department of Health Research. Retrieved2 June 2021.

External links

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Official website
Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Official website
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