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Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan (2025)

04 Oct 2025 GS 2 Govt schemes & initiatives
Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan (2025) Click to view full image

Context:

  • Conducted from 17th September – 2nd October 2025.

  • Joint initiative of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the Ministry of Women & Child Development (MoWCD).

  • Concluded with 18 lakh+ health camps across India, marking the largest-ever health outreach for women and children in the country.

  • Aligned with the vision of Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar, Viksit Bharat @2047.

Scale and Reach

  • 18,08,071 health camps held nationwide.

  • 9.85 crore citizens participated.

  • 6.5 crore+ women benefitted.

  • Conducted at Ayushman Arogya Mandirs, CHCs, District Hospitals, AIIMS, INIs, tertiary hospitals, and private institutions.

  • 2.68 Lakh Ni-kshay Mitras Registered

Significance

  • Women-Centric Health Drive: Largest focused outreach on women’s health in India’s history.

  • Preventive + Promotive + Curative Approach: From screening and immunisation to counselling and treatment linkages.

  • Strengthens Universal Health Coverage (UHC): Aligned with Ayushman Bharat and SDG 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing).

  • Community Mobilisation: Emphasis on healthy lifestyles, menstrual hygiene, mental health, obesity prevention, and voluntary blood donation.

  • The Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan strengthened screening, early detection, and treatment linkages for non-communicable diseases, anaemia, tuberculosis, and sickle cell disease, while also promoting maternal, child, and adolescent health through antenatal care, immunisation, nutrition, menstrual hygiene, lifestyle and mental health awareness activities.

  • At the same time, the campaign mobilised communities towards healthy lifestyle practices with a special emphasis on obesity prevention, improved nutrition, and voluntary blood donation.

Alignment with Policy & Vision

  • National Health Mission (NHM) – strengthening primary and preventive healthcare.

  • Ayushman Bharat – PM-JAY – ensuring financial protection through health insurance.

  • Poshan Abhiyaan & Anaemia Mukt Bharat – tackling malnutrition and anaemia.

  • India @2047 – healthier women as foundation of empowered families and prosperous nation.

Practice Question for UPSC / State pcs

Prelims MCQ
Q. The Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan (2025) was jointly led by:
a) Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Ministry of Education
b) Ministry of Women & Child Development and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
c) Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
d) Ministry of Ayush and Ministry of Women & Child Development
(Answer: b)



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