Steering Committee for NHP (SCNHP)

The Ministry has up a National Health Portal in pursuance to the decisions of the National Knowledge Commission, to provide health information and healthcare related information to the citizens of India to serve as a single point of access for consolidated health information, application and resources on the sector with the aim to cater to a wide spectrum of users such as academicians, citizens, students, healthcare professionals, researchers etc. The National Health Portal would enable access to reliable, easy to understand and multilingual health information from an interactive portal. The National Institute of Health & Family Welfare (NIHFW) has established a Centre for Health Informatics to be the secretariat for managing the activities of the National Health Portal.