Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
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Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Agency overview
Formed1947(77 years ago) (1947)
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 budget90,658 crore (US$11 billion) (2024-25)
Ministers responsible
Agency executive
Website https://main.mohfw.gov.in/ [1]

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. [2] [3]

Contents

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. [4]

Organisation

The ministry is composed of two departments and six subordinate offices. Department of Health and Family Welfare and Department of Health Research and Directorate General of Health Services. [5]

Directorate General of Health Services

The Directorate General of Health Services is a department responsible for technical knowledge concerning Public Health, Medical Education and Health Care. Organizations and Institutes under DGHS are:[ citation needed ]

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 ]

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 ]

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]

Cabinet Ministers

No.PortraitMinister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency
Term of officePolitical partyMinistryPrime Minister
FromToPeriod
Minister of Health
1 RajkumariAmritKaur1936.png 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 Lok Sabha photo.jpg D. P. Karmarkar
(1902–1991)
MP for Dharwad North

(MoS)
17 April
1957
9 April
1962
4 years, 357 days Nehru III
3 Dr Sushila Nayyar, 1947.jpg 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) Dr Sushila Nayyar, 1947.jpg 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 portrait.gif Satya Narayan Sinha
(1900–1983)
MP for Darbhanga
14 November
1967
14 February
1969
1 year, 92 days
6 Kodardas Kalidas Shah portrait.jpg 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 Rajya Sabha photo.jpg Uma Shankar Dikshit
(1901–1991)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh
19 May
1971
5 February
1973
1 year, 262 days Indira III
8 R.K. Khadilkar.jpg Raghunath Keshav Khadilkar
(1905–1979)
MP for Khed

(MoS)
5 February
1973
9 November
1973
277 days
9 Dr-Karan-Singh-sept2009.jpg 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 2007 stamp of India.jpg Raj Narain
(1917–1986)
MP for Allahabad
28 March
1977
1 July
1978
1 year, 95 days Janata Party Desai Morarji Desai
Morarji Desai visits the USA (cropped).jpg Morarji Desai
(1896–1995)
MP for Surat

(Prime Minister)
1 July
1978
24 January
1979
207 days
11 Portrait of Rabi Ray.jpg 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 portrait.jpg 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 (cropped).jpg Mohsina Kidwai
(born 1932)
MP for Meerut
31 December
1984
24 June
1986
1 year, 175 days Rajiv II
Rajiv Gandhi, the 6th PM of India.jpg Rajiv Gandhi
(1944–1991)
MP for Amethi

(Prime Minister)
24 June
1986
14 February
1988
1 year, 235 days
14 Motilal Vora.jpg Motilal Vora
(1928–2020)
Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh
14 February
1988
24 January
1989
345 days
15 Ram Niwas Mirdha (cropped).jpg 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 NilamaniRautray.jpg 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 Singh.jpg Chandra Shekhar
(1927–2007)
MP for Ballia

(Prime Minister)
20 February
1991
21 June
1991
121 days
20 Makhan Lal Fotedar (cropped).jpg 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 portrait.jpg B. Shankaranand
(1925–2009)
MP for Chikkodi
18 January
1993
22 December
1994
1 year, 338 days
Visit of Narasimha Rao, Indian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the CEC (cropped)(2).jpg P. V. Narasimha Rao
(1921–2004)
MP for Nandyal

(Prime Minister)
23 December
1994
11 June
1995
170 days
21 A. R. Antulay with Shivraj Patil (cropped).jpg 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 BNC.jpg 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 071.jpg 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 tribute image (cropped).jpg 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 PIB 2004 (cropped).jpg C. P. Thakur
(born 1931)
MP for Patna
27 May
2000
1 July
2002
2 years, 35 days Bharatiya Janata Party
28 Shatrughan Sinha.jpg Shatrughan Sinha
(born 1946)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar
1 July
2002
29 January
2003
212 days
29 Sushma Swaraj in 2014.jpg Sushma Swaraj
(1952–2019)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttarakhand
29 January
2003
22 May
2004
1 year, 114 days
30 Anbumani Ramadoss in 2007 (cropped).jpg 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 taking office in 2012 (cropped).jpg 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 at Healthcare Skill Summit 2013 (cropped).jpg 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 in 2017.jpg Harsh Vardhan
(born 1954)
MP for Chandni Chowk
27 May
2014
9 November
2014
99 days Bharatiya Janata Party Modi I Narendra Modi
34 J.P. Nadda in New Delhi - 2018 (cropped).jpg Jagat Prakash Nadda
(born 1960)
Rajya Sabha MP for Himachal Pradesh
9 November
2014
30 May
2019
4 years, 202 days
(33) Harsh Vardhan in 2017.jpg Harsh Vardhan
(born 1954)
MP for Chandni Chowk
31 May
2019
7 July
2021
2 years, 37 days Modi II
35 Mansukh Mandaviya Profile (4x5).png Mansukh Mandaviya
(born 1972)
Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat
7 July
2021
9 June
2024
2 years, 338 days
(34) J.P. Nadda in New Delhi - 2018 (cropped).jpg Jagat Prakash Nadda
(born 1960)
Rajya Sabha MP for Himachal Pradesh
10 June
2024
Incumbent40 days Modi III

List of ministers of state

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Minister of state PortraitTermYearsPrime MinisterPolitical Party
Faggan Singh Kulaste Shri Faggan Singh Kulaste taking charge as the Minister of State for Steel, in New Delhi on May 31, 2019 (cropped).jpg 5 July 20163 September 20171 year, 60 days Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party
Anupriya Patel The Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare, Smt. Anupriya Patel addressing at the release of the National Health Profile (NHP) 2018 and launch of the National Health Resource Repository (NHRR), in New Delhi.JPG 5 July 201630 May 20192 years, 329 days Apna Dal (Sonelal)
Ashwini Kumar Choubey Ashwini Kumar Choubey addressing at the signing ceremony of an MoU between the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and MEITY, in New Delhi.JPG 3 September 20177 July 20213 years, 307 days Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharati Pawar Bharati Pawar with PM Modi (cropped).jpg 7 July 202110 June 20242 years, 339 days
S. P. Singh Baghel SPS Baghel MoS Health.jpg 18 May 202310 June 20241 year, 23 days
Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav Prataprao Ganpatrao Jadhav taking charge.jpg 10 June 2024Incumbent40 days Shiv Sena
Anupriya Patel The official portrait of State Minister Anupriya Patel.jpg 10 June 2024Incumbent40 days Apna Dal (Sonelal)

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