CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare addresses the Western Region Dissemination Workshop of National Family Health Survey-5.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare is instrumental and responsible for implementation of various programmes on a national scale in the areas of health and family welfare, prevention and control of major communicable diseases and promotion of traditional and indigenous systems of medicines.

Detailed explanation-3: -India was the first country in the world to have launched a National Programme for Family Planning in 1952. With its historic initiation in 1952, the Family Planning Programme has undergone transformation in terms of policy and actual programme implementation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Role of national family welfare organisations in family Welfare programmes: Central social Welfare Board, all – India Women’s conference, Bhart seweak samaj, Biswa are some of the national organisations involved in family welfare programmes to improve the health of mother and child.