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- Aim: Indradhanush on with an aim to cover all those children who are partially vaccinated or unvaccinated.
- Mission Indradhanush will be a nationwide initiative with a special focus on 201 high focus districts. These districts account for nearly 50% of the total partially vaccinated or unvaccinated children in the country. Mission Indradhanush will provide protection against seven life-threatening diseases (diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, tuberculosis, measles and hepatitis B). In addition, vaccination against Japanese Encephalitis and Haemophilus influenza type B will be provided in districts of the country. Vaccination against tetanus will be provided to the pregnant women.
- The Mission focuses on interventions to rapidly increase full immunization coverage of children by approximately 5% annually and to expand full immunization coverage to at least 90% children in the next five years.
- The Ghaziabad Police, Uttar Pradesh launched an operation named Operation Smile in the month of September, 2014 to identify, track, locate, rescue and rehabilitate children who went missing and found to be subjected to abuse and exploitation. Thereafter, Government of Uttar Pradesh implemented a similar operation throughout the State.
- Delhi Police have also launched a special drive `Operation Milap to reunite missing children with their parents through the Anti Human Trafficking Units (AHTU).
- Ministry of Home Affairs also took an initiative in this regard and directed all the State Governments/ UTs to launch a sustained campaign for a month in January, 2015 on the lines of 'Operation Smile'.
