Which of the following statement/s is/are NOT CORRECT about the U-WIN portal of Ministry of Health and Family welfare?

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Correct — D, None of the above. Read the stem's grammar before its content: it asks which statement is NOT correct about U-WIN. All three are correct, so none of them qualifies, and the only surviving option is (d). The Commission said exactly this when it disposed of objections on 31 October 2025 — all three options are correct about the U-WIN portal. Each one can be matched against the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's own description. U-WIN is the digital platform that digitalises every vaccination service delivered under the Universal Immunisation Programme, covering pregnant women and children from birth to 16 years against 12 vaccine-preventable diseases; the Programme's annual target is about 2.9 crore pregnant women and 2.6 crore infants aged 0-1 year. In the Ministry's published list of U-WIN's key features you will find, in this order, 'Anytime Access' and 'Anywhere' vaccination services, generation of an Ayushman Bharat Health Account and a Child ABHA, a citizen module, automated SMS alerts, a QR-based e-Vaccination Certificate and an offline mode for vaccinators working without connectivity. Statement (a) is that QR-based certificate. Statement (b) is the ABHA and Child ABHA pair — which is why the option says 'for parents and children'. Statement (c) matches the eleven Indian languages in which the platform's interface and its guidance material for citizens and front-line workers are served. In other words the three statements were assembled straight out of the Ministry's own feature list, which is the fastest way to see that none of them can be the false one. The scale confirms the platform is real and running: after a pilot in 63 districts across 35 States and Union Territories and a nationwide roll-out, 7.43 crore beneficiaries had been registered, 1.26 crore vaccination sessions held and 27.77 crore administered doses recorded as on 25 November 2024. One thing U-WIN is not: it is not a COVID-19 platform. It borrows CoWIN's architecture but its business is routine childhood and maternal immunisation.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) This statement is true, so it cannot answer a 'NOT CORRECT' stem. The QR-based e-Vaccination Certificate is named in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's own list of U-WIN's key features. It is the direct descendant of the CoWIN certificate, and it is what lets a parent produce a verifiable immunisation record anywhere in the country, including for school admission.  (b) Also true. The Ministry lists 'generation of Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) and Child ABHA' among U-WIN's key features — the Child ABHA is exactly why the option says 'for parents and children'. Candidates who know ABHA only as an adult health ID under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission may doubt that a newborn can hold one, and reject a statement that is correct.  (c) True as well, and the most suspicious-looking of the three because a precise number in an option usually signals a planted error. Here the number is right: U-WIN is served in eleven Indian languages, and the Ministry records that the platform's guidance and FAQ material for citizens and front-line workers is published in the same eleven. A specific figure is not automatically a trap.

Concept: Two structures meet in this question. The first is the Universal Immunisation Programme, among the largest public health programmes anywhere: it delivers free vaccines against 12 vaccine-preventable diseases to an annual cohort of roughly 2.9 crore pregnant women and 2.6 crore infants, and its reach was pushed further by Mission Indradhanush from December 2014 and by the later Intensified rounds aimed at children and pregnant women who had been missed. The second is India's digital public infrastructure in health. The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, launched nationwide in September 2021, issues every citizen a voluntary Ayushman Bharat Health Account — a portable digital health identity to which records can be linked and carried across providers and States. CoWIN demonstrated during the pandemic that a national registry with a unique beneficiary record, session planning, SMS reminders and a verifiable QR certificate could work at population scale. U-WIN takes that architecture and points it at routine immunisation instead of a single emergency vaccine: one electronic record per pregnant woman and per child from birth to 16 years, follow-up alerts before each due dose, a QR-based certificate, an ABHA and a Child ABHA, and an offline mode so that an auxiliary nurse midwife in an area with no signal can still record a session and sync it later.

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