Question : Intensified Mission Indradhanush

Will the Minister of HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has launched Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 2.0, if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise along with the aims and objectives behind launching this mission;

(b) whether the Government has assessed the performance of Mission Indradhanush which was launched earlier, if so, the details thereof;

(c) the details of districts covered under the Mission, State/UT-wise along with the number of people benefited under the mission;

(d) whether the Government has examined the level of achievements/implementation status of the scheme and if so, the details thereof; and

(e) whether the Government proposes to enhance the immunization coverage, especially to more and more remotely located and backward families in the country, if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND
FAMILY WELFARE
(SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

(a): Yes, 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 at Annexure 1.

(b) to (d): Yes, 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 at Annexure-II.

(e): Yes. 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.