The Government has launched the Pulse Polio Programme 2019 on March 9.
Under this programme, polio drops would be administered to children less than five years of age.
It is conducted every year.
It aims to protect children from the polio disease by conducting two nationwide mass polio vaccination campaigns and two to three sub-national campaigns each year.
This pulse polio programme 2019 is aimed at sustaining the polio eradication from the country.
Polio
Polio, also known as poliomyelitis, is a highly contagious viral disease.
Children younger than 5 years old are more likely to contract the virus than any other group.
Polio virus spreads by food or water containing human faeces and less commonly from infected saliva.
India was declared polio-free country in the year 2014.
India’s last reported cases of wild polio were in West Bengal and Gujarat on 13 January 2011.