The Ayushman Bharat Programme in India
| Published date | 01 June 2024 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00195561241236127 |
| Author | Rumki Basu |
| Date | 01 June 2024 |
The Ayushman Bharat
Programme in India
Rumki Basu1
Introduction
India’s public healthcare capacities have diverse and unique challenges, with the
majority of its population facing access decits to health facilities, funding and drugs
at three levels of healthcare —primary, secondary and tertiary; this problem which
came into sharp focus during the Covid-19 pandemic. We have to meet the policy
mandates set by the latest National Health Policy 2017,1 and achieve the targets of
the UN Sustainable Development Health related Goals by 2030, (United Nations
Development Programme, 2015) besides nding solutions to the issue of underfund-
ing of the health sector and shortage of qualied staff. We need to assess and use
emerging technologies to improve patient care and facilitate access to essential drugs
for our underprivileged and marginalised population. Healthcare in India today is
heavily privatised, a reality we cannot ignore as much as we cannot turn a blind eye to
the dismal state of health services at the primary, secondary or tertiary levels in gov-
ernment clinics and hospitals. Nearly, 75% of all out-patient consultation and 65% of
all hospitalisation in India happen in privately owned health facilities (Lahariya,
2018). Despite these challenges, India is fully aligned to the global discourse on
Universal Health Coverage (UHC)—a policy pledge globally understood to mean
increased access to quality healthcare services to all citizens at affordable cost. The
Government of India, as a signatory to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
(UN SDG), is committed to an inclusive Health Policy and towards this end has inau-
gurated many national programmes with health-related impacts since 2015.
Ayushman Bharat Programme
To achieve the dream of UHC, the Government launched a agship scheme—
Ayushman Bharat Programme (ABP)2 in the 2018–2019 budget as per the recom-
mendations of the National Health Policy 2017. India’s impressive economic
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Indian Journal of Public
Administration
70(2) 413–418, 2024
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1 Centre for Public Policy & Governance, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, India
Corresponding author:
Rumki Basu, Head, Centre for Public Policy & Governance, Institute of Social Sciences, Vasant Kunj,
New Delhi, Delhi 110070, India.
E-mail: mailtorumkibasu@gmail.com
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