Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma inaugurated the state-level Pulse Polio campaign in Rajasthan on 23 November 2025. The campaign focused on giving oral polio vaccine drops to children below five years of age to protect them from polio. Vaccination booths and door-to-door teams were used so that children who could not reach booths were also covered.
For Rajasthan, this is a direct example of health administration and public-health management. The drive aimed to cover more than 1.08 crore children up to the age of five. The state set up 58,823 polio booths and deployed 6,741 transit teams and 8,989 mobile teams. After booth activity, health workers were to conduct door-to-door visits over the next two days to administer drops to children missed at booths. From an exam perspective, the target age group, type of vaccine, coverage mechanism, and the role of the state government are the most likely factual hooks.
The static-GK linkage is also clear. Polio mainly affects children under 5 years of age, and WHO notes that 1 in 200 infections can lead to irreversible paralysis. India rolled out the Pulse Polio Immunization Programme on 2 October 1994 and received polio-free certification with the South-East Asia Region on 27 March 2014. Rajasthan's campaign therefore fits into India's continuing public-health strategy to sustain polio-free status. For RAS and UPSC, it can be linked with Rajasthan current affairs, health administration, child health, and immunisation programmes.