India Has Lowest Health Spending Among BRICS Nations

Latest UN figures have also revealed that India accounts for one-third of deaths of pregnant women, mainly because of complications such as severe bleeding after childbirth, high blood pressure during pregnancy, infections and unsafe abortion.

Further, numerous flagship programmes like Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojna (IGMSY), Janani Suraksha Yojna (JSY) and Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK) focus on the same beneficiaries, making it an overlap of government schemes.

For example, JSY intends to bring down the maternal mortality rate by promoting institutional deliveries, while JSSK entitles all pregnant women delivering in public health institutions to no-expenses delivery and IGMSY is a provisional cash transfer scheme for pregnant women.

The survey said "A threshold level could also be fixed for the schemes as a critical minimum investment or outlay is needed for any programme to be successful," as reported by TNN.

The survey also mentioned the suggestion made by the committee on 'restructuring of centrally sponsored schemes' and said that such schemes should have a minimum plan expenditure of Rs 10,000 crore over the five year plan.

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