What is in news : 112th Annual Day celebrations of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) was recently celebrated

About :

• Established at Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1909 as National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD)
• Was transformed to NCDC in 2009
• Functions as the nodal agency in the country for disease surveillance facilitating prevention and control of communicable diseases
• Headquarters – Delhi