Monday 13 February 2012 Government 2.0: The Road Ahead
Outlay for health sector increased

It was allocate Rs 22,300 crore against Rs 19,534 crore in 2009-10

New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee allocated Rs 22,300 crore for the health sector in his 2010-11 budget, an increase of over Rs 2,700 crore over the previous fiscal year.

The Minister said the country was set to conduct a national health survey next fiscal and this would benefit in more than one way.

Mukherjee said he was proposing to allocate Rs 22,300 crore as health expenditure as against Rs 19,534 crore in 2009-10, reports IANS.

"The findings of the survey should be of immense benefit to major public health initiatives, particularly the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), which has successfully addressed the gaps in the delivery of critical health services in rural areas," he said.

The flagship programme of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, the NRHM, was launched in 2005. The aim was to improve availability and access to quality healthcare for people living in remote areas.

The main focus is on 18 states that have weak public health infrastructure - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Orissa, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.

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