AHMEDABAD: The state government in the last three financial years under the
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has received a total grant of Rs 2179 crore of which only 80% of the grants is being utilized. The government in the written reply also admitted that the allocation of grants under NRHM has registered a drop.
According to a written reply to the question of Punja Vansh, in the year 2015-16 the state received a grant of Rs 774 crore an average little less than Rs 65 crore per month, while in the year 2016-17 the grant received was Rs 861 crore at an average of approximately Rs 72 crore per month. The government further said that in the current financial year the state as on December 31,2017 has received Rs 544 crore at an average of Rs 60 crore per month.
The government reply also stated that the grant which remains unutilised was added to the grant received for the next year financial. The grants under the NRHM are received to take action against
communicable diseases and
non-communicable diseases. The grants are received for
National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme,
National Leprosy Eradication Programme, Integrated Disease Surveillance Project, National Programme for prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cadiovescular diseases and stroke, National Programme For Control of Blindness, deafness among others.
