Published on: August 6, 2021
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL
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