The scheme will be launched on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on December 25, a press release quoted the Chief Minister as saying.
Teams comprising doctors, female health workers and officials of child protection department would visit the government as well as private nursing homes and hospitals to check health of all the newborn babies.
Rupani, who inaugurated the annual school health check-up drive covering almost 1.5 crore school children in Gujarat's Gandhinagar, said Atal Sneh scheme was aimed at addressing the issue of various birth defects among infants such as neural tube defects, cleft lip, club foot, congenital heart diseases, deafness and Down's syndrome.