Recently, the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare presided over the 112th Annual Day celebrations of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). 

About NCDC: 

• The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), formerly National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), had its origin as the Central Malaria Bureau, established at Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) in 1909. 
• NICD was transformed into the NCDC with a larger mandate of controlling emerging and re-emerging diseases in 2009. 
• It functions as the nodal agency in the country for disease surveillance facilitating prevention and control of communicable diseases. 
• It is also a national level institute for training specialized manpower for public health, laboratory sciences and entomological services and is involved in various applied research activities. 
• The Institute is under administrative control of the Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 
• The Institute has its headquarters in Delhi. 

Source: PIB