PAC calls National Rural Health Mission a fiasco

Coming down heavily on government’s flagship program, the National Rural Health Mission (NHRM), the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has termed it is a ‘fiasco’.

The committee found glaring deficiencies, loopholes, and virtually no effective monitoring mechanism, and called for a through restructuring.
“A large number of sub-centers, primary health centers and community health centers are located in sub-standard environment such as garbage dumps, cattle sheds and stagnant water bodies, and functioning in unhygienic conditions,” the report said.