Government response
Match each programme to its disease area, official identity and likely exam confusion.
Do not confuse: Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme
Current signal: Renamed 1 January 2020; Ni-kshay, notification, molecular testing, active case finding, nutrition support; elimination target 2025.
Do not confuse: Older paper records / Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) confusion
Current signal: U-WIN nationally rolled out in 2024 to digitally record and track individual vaccination events; Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network chiefly manages vaccine stocks and cold chain.
Do not confuse: National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke
Current signal: Old acronym NPCDCS; expanded programme is NP-NCD. Saturation screening of eligible adults ≥30 years.
Do not confuse: National AIDS Control Programme Phase V ended 31 March 2026
Current signal: Test and treat, Prevention of Parent-to-Child Transmission, viral-load monitoring; epidemic-control target 1 December 2027.
Do not confuse: National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme / earlier directorate naming
Current signal: Central body covers malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, kala-azar, and lymphatic filariasis. Do not assume all six share one elimination year.
Do not confuse: Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana is the hospital-cover component, not the primary-care screening service
Current signal: Comprehensive primary care: prevention, screening, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care; includes non-communicable diseases, tuberculosis, leprosy, eye, mental, elderly and emergency care.
Do not confuse: Not a replacement vaccine schedule
Current signal: Reaches unvaccinated and partially vaccinated children and pregnant women, especially in low-coverage and hard-to-reach areas.
Do not confuse: Earlier Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight framing
Current signal: Prevent–Protect–Treat approach; aims for zero preventable childhood diarrhoeal deaths through Water-Sanitation-Hygiene, Oral Rehydration Solution and zinc.
Do not confuse: National Leprosy Control Programme
Current signal: Active case detection, contact work, Nikusth 2.0, disability prevention; district-level interruption target 2027.
Do not confuse: National Viral Hepatitis Surveillance Programme is related but not identical
Current signal: Launched 28 July 2018; hepatitis C elimination target 2030; hepatitis B birth-dose focus.
Do not confuse: Paper reporting / S-P-L forms only
Current signal: Near-real-time case-based surveillance; S, P, L reporting roles; national Integrated Health Information Platform rollout began 5 April 2021.
Do not confuse: Post-exposure vaccination alone
Current signal: Human-health and animal-health One Health response; dog-mediated rabies elimination target 2030; helpline 15400.
Do not confuse: General anaemia-control schemes
Current signal: Screening, counselling, care cards, tribal/high-burden focus; public-health target 2047.
Do not confuse: Tele-MANAS is a service under the mental-health system, not a separate disease
Current signal: National Mental Health Programme 1982; District Mental Health Programme 1996; Tele-MANAS helpline 14416.
Do not confuse: Old shorthand NPCB
Current signal: Cataract, refractive error, corneal blindness, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, childhood blindness.
Do not confuse: Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act is a law, not the programme
Current signal: Launched 2007–08; awareness, cessation, training, monitoring, and enforcement of tobacco-control law.
Do not confuse: Rashtriya Varishth Jan Swasthya Yojana is its tertiary-care component/renaming
Current signal: Launched 2010; geriatric services from primary to tertiary level.
Do not confuse: Not a vaccine programme
Current signal: Laboratory strengthening, diagnosis, case management, prevention, and surveillance through Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme–Integrated Health Information Platform; includes Odisha.
Do not confuse: National Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Snakebite Envenoming is its action plan
Current signal: Launched 12 March 2024; prioritises first aid, treatment access, emergency/referral services, antivenom availability, surveillance, and community awareness.
Do not confuse: First national action plan covered 2017–2021
Current signal: Current plan covers 2025–2029 and uses a One Health approach across human, animal, agriculture, and environmental sectors.
Do not confuse: Control programme was changed to elimination framing
Current signal: Early diagnosis and complete treatment, Indoor Residual Spraying, vector surveillance, Post-Kala-azar Dermal Leishmaniasis detection, and free care in endemic blocks.
Do not confuse: Dialysis is not a cure for chronic kidney disease
Current signal: Launched in 2016–17 to expand haemodialysis/peritoneal-dialysis access through district-level services under National Health Mission.
Cashless hospital treatment for eligible beneficiaries through government and empanelled hospitals; the current Odisha framework provides ₹5 lakh per family per year plus an additional ₹5 lakh for women members. Do not confuse: A health-assurance/hospitalisation scheme, not the malaria, tuberculosis, cancer-screening or other disease-control programme.
Free medicines through Odisha government health institutions. Do not confuse: Free-drug scheme; it does not mean every medicine is available for unsupervised use.
Free diagnostic services in Odisha government hospitals. Do not confuse: Diagnostic-access scheme, not a specific disease-screening algorithm.
Haemodialysis support/services shown through National Health Mission Odisha. Do not confuse: Dialysis is renal-replacement treatment, not a cure for chronic kidney disease.
Health advice, counselling, scheme and facility information. Do not confuse: Information/counselling service, not an emergency ambulance; emergencies use the appropriate emergency transport number.