RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Utilisation, Fund Flows and Public Financial Management under the National Health Mission: A Study of Selected States

  • Mita Choudhury, Ranjan Kumar Mohanty
  • Aug 2017
  • National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP)
  • India

National Health Mission (NHM) contributes about a third of all Government health expenditures in the country, and its budget execution has important implications for achieving health outcomes. This study aims to highlight issues related to execution of budgets and the institutional architecture associated with it in India’s health sector. It examines various institutional features that affected the utilization of NHM funds following the reform related to the execution of the budget of the scheme. It also explores the developments in the administrative architecture which has emerged due to the reform and has affected the utilisation of NHM funds.