The President Ramnath Kovind has conferred the International Gandhi Awards for Leprosy to Dr NS Dharmashaktu in the individual category and the Leprosy Mission Trust under the institutional category.
The International Gandhi Award for Leprosy was constituted by the Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation in 1950.
The award has been launched to commemorate the compassion that Gandhiji’s service towards people afflicted with leprosy.
Initiatives by India
SPARSH Leprosy Awareness Campaign - 2017
National leprosy elimination Programme - 1983
In 2005, India achieved the goal of elimination of leprosy as a public health problem.