Intensified Mission Indradhanush 0
- The Central Government launched the Intensified Mission Indradhanush 2.0 nationwide on December 2, 2019, by Dr Harshavardhan under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
- The mission will focus specifically on those who have been left out of previous immunization drives, including dropouts and resistant families, and on sparsely populated areas in tribal and urban areas.
- Indradhanush 2.0 has been intensified to ensure children and pregnant women in the identified districts and blocks from December 2019 to March 2020, covering 272 districts in 27 states and 652 blocks in hard-to-reach areas and tribal populations in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
- Mission Indradhanush 2.0 aims to achieve the sustainable development goal of ending preventable infant mortality by 2030.
- Mission Indradhanush 2.0 is a countrywide vaccination drive program to remember to check the 25-year Pulse Polio program from 2019 to 2020.
- The mission aims to achieve vaccination coverage for 90 % of children under the age of two by 2020.
Indradhanush Scheme
Mission Indradhanush refers to the scheme which was initiated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. The Intensified Mission Indradhanush was introduced on December 25 of 2014 for increasing the process of immunization rates against certain deadly diseases which can be prevented with the help of vaccination all over the country. Initiatives of Mission Indradhanush 2.0, 3.0, and also 4.0 for increasing the area under the Immunization program of India.
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