Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Branch of the Indian government
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Agency overview
Formed15 August 1947 (1947-08-15)
JurisdictionGovernment of India
HeadquartersCabinet Secretariat, Raisina Hill, New Delhi
28°36′50″N 77°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
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

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]

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]

Directorate General of Health Services

The Directorate 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

Food safety
Terms
Critical factors
  • FAT TOM
  • pH
  • Water activity (aw)
Bacterial pathogens
Viral pathogens
Parasitic pathogens

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:

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:

  • 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

Portrait Minister
(Birth-Death)
Constituency		 Term of office Political party Ministry Prime Minister
From To Period
Minister of Health
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur DStJ
(1887–1964)
MP for Central Provinces and Berar, till 1952
MP for Mandi Mahasu, from 1952		 15 August 1947 17 April 1957 9 years, 244 days Indian National Congress Nehru I Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru II
D. P. Karmarkar
(1902–1991)
MP for Dharwad North
(Minister of State)		 17 April 1957 9 April 1962 4 years, 357 days Nehru III
Sushila Nayyar
(1914–2001)
MP for Jhansi
(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 for Jhansi
(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 for Tamil Nadu
(Minister of State)		 13 March 1967 14 November 1967 246 days Indira II
Satya Narayan Sinha
(1900–1983)
MP for Darbhanga		 14 November 1967 14 February 1969 1 year, 92 days
Kodardas Kalidas Shah
(1908–1986)
Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat		 14 February 1969 19 May 1971 2 years, 94 days Indian National Congress (R)
Uma Shankar Dikshit
(1901–1991)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh		 19 May 1971 5 February 1973 1 year, 262 days Indira III
Raghunath Keshav Khadilkar
(1905–1979)
MP for Khed
(Minister of State)		 5 February 1973 9 November 1973 277 days
Karan Singh
(born 1931)
MP for Udhampur		 9 November 1973 24 March 1977 3 years, 135 days
Minister of Health and Family Welfare
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
Rabi Ray
(1926–2017)
Rajya Sabha MP for Odisha		 25 January 1979 15 July 1979 171 days
Morarji Desai
(1896–1995)
MP for Surat
(Prime Minister)		 16 July 1979 28 July 1979 12 days
Rabi Ray
(1926–2017)
Rajya Sabha MP for Odisha		 28 July 1979 14 January 1980 170 days Janata Party (Secular) Charan Singh Charan Singh
B. Shankaranand
(1925–2009)
MP for Chikkodi		 16 January 1980 31 October 1984 4 years, 350 days Indian National Congress Indira IV Indira Gandhi
4 November 1984 31 December 1984 Rajiv I Rajiv Gandhi
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
Motilal Vora
(1928–2020)
Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh		 14 February 1988 24 January 1989 345 days
Ram Niwas Mirdha
(1924–2010)
Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan
(Minister of State, I/C)		 24 January 1989 4 July 1989 161 days
Rafique Alam
(1929–2011)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar
(Minister of State, I/C)		 4 July 1989 2 December 1989 151 days
Nilamani Routray
(1920–2004)
MP for Puri		 6 December 1989 23 April 1990 138 days Janata Dal Vishwanath V. P. Singh
Rasheed Masood
(1947–2020)
MP for Saharanpur
(Minister of State, I/C)		 23 April 1990 10 November 1990 201 days
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
Makhan Lal Fotedar
(1932–2017)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh		 21 June 1991 17 January 1993 1 year, 210 days Indian National Congress Rao P. V. Narasimha Rao
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
A. R. Antulay
(1929–2014)
MP for Kolaba		 11 June 1995 16 May 1996 340 days
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
Saleem Iqbal Shervani
(born 1953)
MP for Badaun
(Minister of State, I/C)		 29 June 1996 9 June 1997 345 days Samajwadi Party
Gujral Inder Kumar Gujral
Inder Kumar Gujral
(1919–2012)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar
(Prime Minister)		 9 June 1997 19 March 1998 283 days Janata Dal
Dalit Ezhilmalai
(1945–2020)
MP for Chidambaram
(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 for Lucknow
(Prime Minister)		 14 August 1999 16 August 1999 2 days Bharatiya Janata Party
A. K. Patel
(born 1931)
MP for Mehsena
(Minister of State, I/C)		 16 August 1999 13 October 1999 58 days
N. T. Shanmugam
MP for Vellore
(Minister of State, I/C)		 13 October 1999 27 May 2000 227 days Pattali Makkal Katchi Vajpayee III
C. P. Thakur
(born 1931)
MP for Patna		 27 May 2000 1 July 2002 2 years, 35 days Bharatiya Janata Party
Shatrughan Sinha
(born 1946)
Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar		 1 July 2002 29 January 2003 212 days
Sushma Swaraj
(1952–2019)
Rajya Sabha MP for Uttarakhand		 29 January 2003 22 May 2004 1 year, 114 days
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
Panabaka Lakshmi
(born 1958)
MP for Nellore
(Minister of State, I/C)		 29 March 2009 22 May 2009 54 days Indian National Congress
Ghulam Nabi Azad
(born 1949)
Rajya Sabha MP for Jammu and Kashmir		 29 May 2009 26 May 2014 4 years, 362 days Manmohan II
Harsh Vardhan
(born 1954)
MP for Chandni Chowk		 27 May 2014 9 November 2014 99 days Bharatiya Janata Party Modi I Narendra Modi
Jagat Prakash Nadda
(born 1960)
Rajya Sabha MP for Himachal Pradesh		 9 November 2014 30 May 2019 4 years, 202 days
Harsh Vardhan
(born 1954)
MP for Chandni Chowk		 31 May 2019 7 July 2021 2 years, 37 days Modi II
Mansukh Mandaviya
(born 1972)
Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat		 7 July 2021 9 June 2024 2 years, 338 days
Jagat Prakash Nadda
(born 1960)
Rajya Sabha MP for Himachal Pradesh		 10 June 2024 Incumbent 1 year, 113 days Modi III

Ministers of State

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

See also

References

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