Meghdoot Gramodyog Sewa Sansthan, the largest unit of KVIC, has given a new meaning to life for a lot of people.

These include thousands who are enjoying better health due to its vast repertoire of highly effective Ayurvedic medicines and food supplements as well as hundreds of rural poor who have obtained gainful employment in its production units.

Agartala: Keeping in view Meghalaya

COIMBATORE: The Central Government is organising a special campaign to promote the use of iodised salt among tribal women.

CHENNAI: Though there is a growing awareness of tuberculosis among people in the rural areas across the State, not many of them are familiar with the DOTS (directly observed treatment, short course) expansion programme, a survey found.

TIRUNELVELI: The recent campaign conducted in 19 blocks of the district through mobile cultural troupes to create awareness among the rural masses about HIV/AIDS has created significant impact over the villagers.

Staff Reporter

LUCKNOW: The district medical authorities would be carrying out a Hepatitis-B vaccination drive in rural areas in and around Lucknow. The drive is expected to begin in the second week of February.

Ahmedabad : For the last two days, primary schoolchildren in remote villages in Barvala taluka, Ahmedabad district, have been getting free typhoid vaccination. This is to ensure that the illness does not disrupt their studies as it does each year.

Raktima Bose

KOLKATA: The Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science and Technology has approved a Rs. 30 lakh proposal of the city-based Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Cancer Research Institute (NSCBCRI) to conduct a study on the health patterns and health management of the Toto tribal people in north Bengal.