Question : HEALTH SURVEY

(a) whether the Government has launched annual health survey to ascertain the state of health of people in certain States;

(b) if so, the details thereof including the States selected by the Government for conducting such surveys on yearly basis;

(c) whether the Government has taken a decision to allocate funds to State Governments to conduct health survey of the people in these States under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM); and

(d) if so, the details of allocation of funds made to State Governments by the Central Government under this head?

THE MINISTER OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI GHULAM NABI AZAD)

(a) & (b) The Government has launched Annual Health Survey (AHS) in the 284 Districts of the States of Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. The survey is being conducted by the Office of Registrar General of India, Ministry of Home Affairs. The main objective of the survey is to get the estimates of key indicators like Crude Birth Rate, Crude Death Rate, Infant Mortality Rate, Neo-Natal Mortality Rate, Maternal Mortality Ratio, Morbidity Rates etc. at the district / regional level. Key results from the first round of the AHS conducted during 2010-11 have been brought out in August, 2011.

(c) & (d) As the survey is already being conducted, there is no proposal to allocate funds to the States for the same.