A NITI Aayog report issued recently has pointed out that Chhattisgarh holds second rank after Kerala in terms of male-female sex-ratio (at the time of birth), Health Department officials informed on Monday.
As per the report of NITI aayog, male to female sex-ratio (at the time of birth) in Chhattisgarh state was found to be 1000 to 972 in year 2005-06 in National Family Health Survey-3, which increased to 1000 boys to 977 girls in National Family Health Survey-4 of year 2015-16.
Health Department Officials informed that according to the Commission’s report, sex-ratio in Chhattisgarh in year 2011-2013 was recorded to be 961, while in Kerala it was 967. In this way Chhattisgarh is performing way better at national level even today.
Chhattisgarh holds first rank in the list of nine achiever states of the country on the basis of overall health indicators.
Other states in this list are Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jammu-Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal and Telangana. Besides, Kerala, Punjab and Tamil Nadu has been kept in the category of front row states.
The Commission has released the report with the title ‘Healthy State-Progressive India, in which year 2014-15 has been taken as base year while 2015-16 has been taken as reference year.
This report has taken into account the statistical data of Sample Registration System (SRS), Health Management Information System (HMIS) and National Family Health Welfare-4 (NFHS-4). On the basis of these figures, states have been ranked.
The states have been categorized on the basis of major health indicators including results of health services, government system, information system and some major points and processes related to health indicators.
Integrated indicators (composite index) of Chhattisgarh has been increased from 48.63 to 52.02, as per NITI Aayog report.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Raman Singh said that as a result of Aanganbadi services and health programmes, IMR in Chhattisgarh in last 14 years has declined from 70 to 41 per 1000, MMR has declined from 379 to 221 on per one lakh deliveries and level of malnutrition has dropped from 52% to 30%.
The Chief Minister said that it is a matter of pride that Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry is soon going to confer national awards on achiever states through National Health Mission.
He also told that the budget of State Government’s Health Department’s budget size in year 2003 was Rs 341 crore, which has been increased to 4703 crore for upcoming year 2018-19.
A total of 10 districts of Chhattisgarh have been selected by NITI Ayog for its five-year plan (2018-22) among 115 districts in the country. This information was given by Additional Chief Secretary, Economics and Statistics Department Sunil Kujur at a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Ajay Singh at the Mantralaya in Naya Raipur early this month.
Kujur informed that the districts of Bastar, Bijapur, South Bastar (Dantewada), North Bastar (Kanker), Kondagaon, Narayanpur, Sukma, Korba, Rajnandgaon and Mahasasamund had been chosen by the Aayog for development in the areas of education, health, agriculture and skill development.
In the assigned districts of Chhattisgarh work would be carried out in the areas of health , nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, skill development and financial planning , he said.
The Chief Secretary directed the Secretaries in-charge of districts to review the work in the assigned areas as per NITI Ayog during their tour of districts.
Notably on January 31 this year, NITI Aayog had also given ‘in principle’ approval to various proposals related to roads, telecommunication, education, Ujjwala yojana and expansion of bank branches for overall development of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region.
NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar had asked various departments of the Central Government to ensure speedy implementation of these suggestions and said that the Aayog will review the implementation process on a regular basis.
At a meeting held to implement Bastar Development Plan held here at the NITI Aayog, senior officials led by Chief Secretary Ajay Singh had discussed these suggestions with NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar, CEO Amitabh Kant, other members and Secretaries of various departments of the Government of India. The Chief Secretary informed that ‘in principle’ approval has been given for construction of additional 600 km of roads in Bastar under Rashtriya Road project – 2 and Special Secretary (Home Ministry) has assured that implementation of this proposal will be done on priority.
The approval was also granted for sanctioning Rs 65 crore for expansion of telecom services and increasing connectivity in remote areas.
The amount will be utilized for expansion of districts to development blocks connectivity in Bastar and expedite execution of 402 towers in the first phase and 1028 telecom towers in the second phase.
In a bid to strengthen education system, in principle approval was given for declaration of 10 lWE affected blocks as educationally backward blocks. During the meeting, approval was given for sanction of additional hostels for girls and upgrade ‘Kasturba Gandhi girls’ schools to high schools.
The approval was also given for providing assistance to ‘Vidya Mitan Yojana’ under National Mission for Secondary Education.
The Chief Secretary informed that Kerosene quota of Chhattisgarh will be maintained at current levels till agencies of 26 new lPG distributors gets operational in Bastar under ‘Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana’. In the meeting it was informed that software has been modified and those women who were minor during the SECC survey and have now become adult will also be given gas connections under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana’.
He added that approval was also given for expansion of banking services in remote rural areas of Bastar region and the Department of Financial Services has assured that they will immediately take up with banks to ensure that 88 new branches were opened in these areas.
He said that Secretary (DFS, Government of India) will visit Chhattisgarh to review the progress.