Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to be in Madhya Pradesh to launch the Swasth Nari Sashakt Parivar initiative and the 8th Rashtriya Poshan Maah, with an event in Dhar.
- Officials say more than one lakh health camps will operate nationwide with a women‑and‑children focus, coupled with blood donation drives registered on the e‑Raktkosh portal.
- The Centre plans direct transfers under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana to nearly 10 lakh women, the rollout of the Suman Sakhi maternal‑health chatbot, and the distribution of the one‑crore Sickle Cell Screening and Counselling Card in MP.
- Delhi’s programme features new Ayushman Arogya Mandirs, hospital blocks and dialysis centres, while states are staging activities from a Pune drone show and Odisha’s 75‑lakh sapling drive to Varanasi’s ₹111 crore project launches and a 75‑kg cake.
- The birthday has renewed discussion of an informal 75‑year retirement convention in the RSS‑BJP ecosystem, though RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said his earlier comment was not a call for current leaders to retire.