Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

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

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (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.^[1][2]

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Branch of the Indian government
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Agency overview
Formed	15 August 1947; 77 years ago (1947-08-15)
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Cabinet Secretariat, Raisina Hill, New Delhi 28°36′50″N 77°12′32″E
Annual budget	₹90,658 crore (US$11 billion) (2024–2025)
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

The Minister of Health and Family Welfare holds cabinet rank as a member of the Council of Ministers. The current minister is Jagat Prakash Nadda, while the current Minister of State for health (MOS: assistant to Minister i.e. currently assistant to J. P. Nadda) are Anupriya Patel and Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav.

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.^[3]

Organisation

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]

See also: Healthcare in India

Directorate General of Health Services

Main article: Directorate General of Health Services (India)

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

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)
• 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

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 ^[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

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

Cabinet Ministers

No.	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
Minister of Health
1			Rajkumari Amrit Kaur DStJ (1887–1964) MP for Central Provinces and Berar, till 1952 MP for Mandi Mahasu, from 1952	15 August 1947	13 May 1952	9 years, 244 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru I	Jawaharlal Nehru
				13 May 1952	17 April 1957			Nehru II
2			D. P. Karmarkar (1902–1991) MP for Dharwad North (MoS)	17 April 1957	9 April 1962	4 years, 357 days		Nehru III
3			Sushila Nayyar (1914–2001) MP for Jhansi (MoS)	10 April 1962	27 May 1964	2 years, 145 days		Nehru IV
				27 May 1964	9 June 1964			Nanda I	Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting)
				9 June 1964	11 January 1966			Shastri	Lal Bahadur Shastri
				11 January 1966	24 January 1966			Nanda II	Gulzarilal Nanda (Acting)
Minister of Health and Family Planning
(3)			Sushila Nayyar (1914–2001) MP for Jhansi (MoS)	24 January 1966	13 March 1967	323 days	Indian National Congress	Indira I	Indira Gandhi
4			Sripati Chandrasekhar (1918–2001) Rajya Sabha MP for Tamil Nadu (MoS)	13 March 1967	14 November 1967	246 days		Indira II
5			Satya Narayan Sinha (1900–1983) MP for Darbhanga	14 November 1967	14 February 1969	1 year, 92 days
6			Kodardas Kalidas Shah (1908–1986) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	14 February 1969	19 May 1971	2 years, 94 days	Indian National Congress (R)
7			Uma Shankar Dikshit (1901–1991) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	19 May 1971	5 February 1973	1 year, 262 days		Indira III
8			Raghunath Keshav Khadilkar (1905–1979) MP for Khed (MoS)	5 February 1973	9 November 1973	277 days
9			Karan Singh (born 1931) MP for Udhampur	9 November 1973	24 March 1977	3 years, 135 days
Minister of Health and Family Welfare
10			Raj Narain (1917–1986) MP for Allahabad	28 March 1977	1 July 1978	1 year, 95 days	Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
–			Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat (Prime Minister)	1 July 1978	24 January 1979	207 days
11			Rabi Ray (1926–2017) Rajya Sabha MP for Odisha	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan Singh	Charan Singh
12			B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP for Chikkodi	16 January 1980	31 October 1984	4 years, 350 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Indira IV	Indira Gandhi
				4 November 1984	31 December 1984			Rajiv I	Rajiv Gandhi
13			Mohsina Kidwai (born 1932) MP for Meerut	31 December 1984	24 June 1986	1 year, 175 days		Rajiv II
–			Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi (Prime Minister)	24 June 1986	14 February 1988	1 year, 235 days
14			Motilal Vora (1928–2020) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh	14 February 1988	24 January 1989	345 days
15			Ram Niwas Mirdha (1924–2010) Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan (MoS, I/C)	24 January 1989	4 July 1989	161 days
16			Rafique Alam (1929–2011) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar (MoS, I/C)	4 July 1989	2 December 1989	151 days
17			Nilamani Routray (1920–2004) MP for Puri	6 December 1989	23 April 1990	138 days	Janata Dal	Vishwanath	V. P. Singh
18			Rasheed Masood (1947–2020) MP for Saharanpur (MoS, I/C)	23 April 1990	10 November 1990	201 days
19			Shakeelur Rehman (1931–2016) MP for Darbhanga	21 November 1990	20 February 1991	91 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Chandra Shekhar
–			Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia (Prime Minister)	20 February 1991	21 June 1991	121 days
20			Makhan Lal Fotedar (1932–2017) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh	21 June 1991	17 January 1993	1 year, 210 days	Indian National Congress (I)	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
(12)			B. Shankaranand (1925–2009) MP for Chikkodi	18 January 1993	22 December 1994	1 year, 338 days
–			P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Nandyal (Prime Minister)	23 December 1994	11 June 1995	170 days
21			A. R. Antulay (1929–2014) MP for Kolaba	11 June 1995	16 May 1996	340 days
22			Sartaj Singh (born 1940) MP for Narmadapuram	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
23			Saleem Iqbal Shervani (born 1953) MP for Badaun (MoS, I/C)	29 June 1996	21 April 1997	345 days
				21 April 1997	9 June 1997			Gujral	Inder Kumar Gujral
–			Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar (Prime Minister)	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	283 days
24			Dalit Ezhilmalai (1945–2020) MP for Chidambaram (MoS, 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 for Lucknow (Prime Minister)	14 August 1999	16 August 1999	2 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
25			A. K. Patel (born 1931) MP for Mehsena (MoS, I/C)	16 August 1999	13 October 1999	58 days
26			N. T. Shanmugam MP for Vellore (MoS, I/C)	13 October 1999	27 May 2000	227 days	Pattali Makkal Katchi	Vajpayee III
27			C. P. Thakur (born 1931) MP for Patna	27 May 2000	1 July 2002	2 years, 35 days	Bharatiya Janata Party
28			Shatrughan Sinha (born 1946) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar	1 July 2002	29 January 2003	212 days
29			Sushma Swaraj (1952–2019) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttarakhand	29 January 2003	22 May 2004	1 year, 114 days
30			Anbumani Ramadoss (born 1968) Rajya Sabha MP for Tamil Nadu	23 May 2004	29 March 2009	4 years, 310 days	Pattali Makkal Katchi	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
31			Panabaka Lakshmi (born 1958) MP for Nellore (MoS, I/C)	29 March 2009	22 May 2009	54 days	Indian National Congress
32			Ghulam Nabi Azad (born 1949) Rajya Sabha MP for Jammu and Kashmir	29 May 2009	26 May 2014	4 years, 362 days		Manmohan II
33			Harsh Vardhan (born 1954) MP for Chandni Chowk	27 May 2014	9 November 2014	99 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
34			Jagat Prakash Nadda (born 1960) Rajya Sabha MP for Himachal Pradesh	9 November 2014	30 May 2019	4 years, 202 days
(33)			Harsh Vardhan (born 1954) MP for Chandni Chowk	31 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 37 days		Modi II
35			Mansukh Mandaviya (born 1972) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	7 July 2021	9 June 2024	2 years, 338 days
(34)			Jagat Prakash Nadda (born 1960) Rajya Sabha MP for Himachal Pradesh	10 June 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 63 days		Modi III

List of ministers of state

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Minister of state	Portrait	Term		Years	Prime Minister	Political Party
Faggan Singh Kulaste		5 July 2016	3 September 2017	1 year, 60 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
Anupriya Patel		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	10 June 2024	2 years, 339 days
S. P. Singh Baghel		18 May 2023	10 June 2024	1 year, 23 days
Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav		10 June 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 63 days		Shiv Sena
Anupriya Patel		10 June 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 63 days		Apna Dal (Sonelal)

See also

• Central Health Service (CHS)
• Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS)
• Mission Indradhanush
• Arogyavani
• Integrated disease surveillance program (IDSP)
• Pradhan Mantri Digital Health Mission (PMDHM)
• Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
• Health effects of pesticides
• Pesticide poisoning
• Pesticide residue
• Environmental impact of pesticides
• Pesticide regulation in the United States
• Regulation of pesticides in the European Union