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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Settle policy feud: PM to Azad, Montek -Kounteya Sinha & Nitin Sethi

Settle policy feud: PM to Azad, Montek -Kounteya Sinha & Nitin Sethi

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published Published on Sep 17, 2012   modified Modified on Sep 17, 2012
-The Times of India

In a significant intervention aimed at settling a noisy policy feud, PM Manmohan Singh has asked health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to sort out differences over the thrust and formulation of the health policy in the 12th plan with Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.

The PM intervened during the full meeting of the Planning Commission on Saturday when Azad took up issues that have led to differences between his ministry and the plan panel. Singh is understood to have pointed out that a detailed reference may not be possible at the meeting as several ministers were to speak and said matters could be settled in discussions with Ahluwalia.

The health ministry is at odds with what it sees as an effort to privatize healthcare or set up a competition between the public health services and private care providers. The proposal to remunerate designated hospitals in accordance with number of patients attended to is also a bone of contention. However, the health ministry's insistence on two separate rural and urban health missions is not fully appreciated by the PMO that has been trying to settle the policy feud. The view in PMO is that the quibbling takes away from the essential aspects of health policy such as delivery and access.

In view of the PM's directive, Planning Commission has put on hold controversial suggestions, many of which were seen as pushing an "MRP driven healthcare structure".

Following the meeting, Ahluwalia told TOI, "The health minister raised several concerns which we will sort out. I will be meeting Ghulam Nabi Azad within a week to settle out differences before the 12th plan allocation goes to the Cabinet."

Planning Commission had tried to push through a controversial proposal which intended to reduce the health ministry's role in delivering healthcare as a mere "peer reviewer to the health plans" which would from now on, be prepared solely by the states.

Azad on Saturday spoke for 45 minutes in an attempt to shoot down the proposal.

The commission's suggestion to have a single National Health Mission instead of a separate national rural and urban health missions also ran into rough weather. Ahluwalia said, "The ministry is of the opinion that NRHM should not be touched and be allowed to run separately." He was firm against having two separate missions in the country — one catering to urban and the other to rural populations.

The Times of India, 17 September, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Settle-policy-feud-PM-to-Azad-Montek/articleshow/16429138.cms


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