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International Gandhi Awards for Leprosy
February 10 , 2020
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- 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.
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