For suggesting a name for National Deworming Program, MoHFW conducted online contest for 2 weeks in January, 2015 however no ‘appealing’ entries were received.

MoHFW is seeking inputs for suggesting innovative, broad based and creative name for the National Deworming Program (name not necessarily to be restricted to ‘Worm infestation’ only).

National Deworming Program Brief

Millions of children in India are at risk of worm infestation. Worm infestation impairs physical growth, mental/cognitive development, causes anaemia, leads to poor school attendance and performance. Alongwith with deworming through Albendazole tablets, improvement of water and sanitation and health education can reduce the transmission of worm infestation.

National Deworming Program Task

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) launched National Deworming Day on 10th February, 2015. Objective of National Deworming Program is to deworm all pre-school and school-age children (both enrolled and non-enrolled) between the ages of 1-19 years on a single identified day (twice a year) through the platform of Government, Government aided schools and anganwadi centers in order to improve their overall health, nutritional status, access to education and quality of life.

Target: Albendazole to be provided to all children and adolescents in the age group of 1-19 years

Where: All Government, Government Aided schools and Anganwadi centers

Activities on National Deworming Day:

• In Schools: School teachers would provide 1 Albendazole tablet to all school enrolled children.

• In Anganwadi centers: Anganwadi workers would provide Albendazole dose to all children of 1 – 5 years and out-of-school children/adolescents (6-19 years).

This task seeks inputs to suggest a name for the National Deworming Program.

The last date of submission is 16th April 2015.

The top three winning entry will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- each and top selected entry would receive an additional cash prize of Rs. 10,000/-.

Please click here for more information on Technical Parameters and Evaluation Criteria.

Those who had already submitted entries as per the earlier notification to "Suggest a Name for the National Deworming Program of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare’ (https://mygov.in/task/suggest-name-national-deworming-program-ministry-health-and-family-welfare/) may also participate for submitting new entries during this time.

Moderator for the task

Dr. Ajay Khera,

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,

E-Mail ID: ajaykheramch@gmail.com