ABSTRACT
The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) was launched on 12th April 2005 throughout India with a commitment of the government to carry out the necessary architectural corrections in the basic health care delivery system. NRHM covers the entire country but has a special focus on eighteen states (of these 8 are EAG states), identified to have weak public health indicators and/or weak health infrastructure. These focused states are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Orissa, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh. While all the Mission activities are the same for all the states/UTs in the country, the high focus states have the following additional support:
(i) An Accredited Social Health Worker (ASHA) in all villages with a population of 1000.
