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Give reasons.

The campaign for pulse polio immunization was taken up.

Every year, out of every ten children, six of them suffered fatal health problems in the very first year of their birth before 1978. In order to overcome the threat of certain serious diseases such as polio, measles, tetanus, TB, diphtheria, and whooping cough etc, the immunization programme was initiated. In addition, the ‘pulse polio’ immunization was started in 1995, which effectively resulted in controlling the polio disease.


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Which kinds of discrimination does the Constitution prohibit?