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Government has launched Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 2.0 with the aim to reach out to partially vaccinated and unvaccinated children with all the available vaccines under Universal Immunization Program (UIP) across 381 districts in 29 States/UTs. The State/UTs wise details are given below:

 

List of States/ UTs covered under Intensified Mission Indradhanush 2.0

 

 

The Government has assessed the performance of Mission Indradhanush which was launched in 2014. The first two phases of Mission Indradhanush resulted in 6.7% increase in full immunization coverage. Intensified Mission Indradhanush was implemented in 2017-18. This was followed by a Coverage evaluation survey which showed an average increase of 18.5% in full immunization coverage as compared to that in National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) carried out in 2015-16.

During the various phases of Mission Indradhanush including Gram Swaraj Abihayan and Extended Gram Swaraj a total of 3.61 crore children and 91.45 lakh pregnant women have been vaccinated, across 690 districts in 36 State/UT.   State/UT-wise coverage details are given below:

 

State/ UT wise details of children and pregnant women vaccinated under Mission Indradhanush*

*Including Mission Indradhanush, Intensified Mission Indradhanush, Gram Swaraj Abhiyaan, Extended Gram Swaraj Abhiyaan and Intensified Mission Indradhanush 2.0 (two rounds)

 

The Government aims to enhance the full immunization coverage of children by intensified focus on pockets of low immunization coverage and hard to reach areas where the proportion of unvaccinated and partially vaccinated children, including remote backward families in the country are high.

 

The Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Sh Ashwini Kumar Choubey stated this in a written reply in the Lok Sabha here today.

 

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