All Health & Nutrition Content
18 published pieces
PM Ujjwala Yojana — Clean Cooking Fuel for 10.33 Crore Poor Households
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Jan Suraksha Schemes — Rs. 25,000 Crore in Claims Paid to India's Most Vulnerable in 11 Years
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Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin Phase 2 — From Open Defecation Free to ODF Plus
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NHM and the ASHA Programme — India's Last-Mile Health Architecture
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Ayushman Arogya Mandir — Free Comprehensive Healthcare at Your Village Sub-Centre
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MAMATA-PMMVY — Odisha's Maternity Benefit for Pregnant and Lactating Mothers
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Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 — Tap Water to Every Rural Home by 2028
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Gopabandhu Jana Arogya Yojana (GJAY) — Odisha's Universal Health Cover for 1.03 Crore Families
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Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti (GRAVIS) — Science in the Desert, Dignity in the Drought
The Thar Desert in western Rajasthan is India's most water-stressed landscape. Average annual rainfall in Barmer and Jaisalmer districts runs below 250 millimetres. Groundwater is saline or absent. Fluoride contamination affects large areas. For the pastoral and agricultural comm...
Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra — 54 Years of Putting the Last First in Jharkhand and Bihar
In 1971, four graduate engineers from Bihar made an unusual professional decision. Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography — "Satya ke Prayog," the story of experiments with truth — they chose rural Jharkhand over urban careers and founded Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra in Hazari...
SEARCH, Gadchiroli — People's Health in People's Hands
In 1986, two doctors from Maharashtra — Abhay Bang and Rani Bang — chose to live in Gadchiroli. This requires explanation. Gadchiroli is among the most impoverished districts in India. Tribals constitute thirty percent of its population. Poverty, illiteracy, and remoteness compou...
Gram Vikas — The Toilet That Changed Everything Else
The story of Gram Vikas is, at its surface, a story about toilets. Every household in a village gets a toilet and a bathing room and a piped water connection — before the programme begins, every household must agree to this commitment. The village installs the piped water system....
Ekjut — The Women's Group That Brought Babies Home Alive
In 2005, neonatal mortality in the tribal districts of Jharkhand and Odisha ran higher than 60 deaths per 1,000 live births among Scheduled Tribe communities. The national average was already catastrophic. Among tribal communities in these states, it was worse. And the reasons we...
Sangath — Making Mental Healthcare Everyone's Business
India has roughly one psychiatrist per 200,000 people. In rural India and tribal areas, the ratio is effectively zero. The treatment gap for mental health disorders — the difference between people who need care and people who receive it — runs above 80 percent nationally. For tri...
Mental Health Task-Sharing at Community Level
In India, there is approximately one psychiatrist per 100,000 people nationally. In Odisha's tribal districts, the figure is dramatically lower — most interior blocks have no mental health professional of any category within reasonable reach. Psychiatric services are concentrated...
Traditional Healers and Formal Health Systems — Integration, Not Replacement
A study among tribal women in Odisha found that only 6% solely opted for allopathic medical treatments. The majority — 94% — use some combination of traditional and formal healthcare, approaching traditional healers first for most conditions and moving to formal facilities when t...
The ASHA Programme — How NGOs Can Strengthen the Last Mile
An ASHA — Accredited Social Health Activist — is a woman selected from her own village, trained in basic health promotion and service facilitation, and deployed as a link between her community and the formal health system. She is not a nurse. She is not a doctor. She is a trusted...
Health & Nutrition in Odisha: Distance Is a Diagnosis
She walked four hours to reach the Primary Health Centre. When she arrived, the doctor was absent. The auxiliary nurse midwife who was supposed to cover was managing three other emergencies in a building without running water. The woman had walked four hours while in early labour...