Is NRHM a new programme of the Government of India?
No NRHM is not a new programme of Govt. of India but NRHM is the combination of national programmes, namely, the Reproductive and Child Health II project, (RCH II) the National Disease Control Programmes (NDCP) and the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP). NRHM will also enable the mainstreaming of Ayurvedic, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy Systems of Health (AYUSH). 4. What are the strategies of the NRHM? While providing a broad framework for operationalisation, NRHM lists a set of core and supplementary strategies to meet its goals. The core strategy of NRHM will include decentralisation of villages and district level Rural Planning and Management and to appoint ASHA for creation of awareness, to counsel women and for the mobilisation of community facilities for accessing health related services. ASHA is supposed to escort pregnant women for delivery to institutions as PHC/FRU. The Ayurvedic system will improve management capacity to organise health system and Public Hea
