New Delhi: Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to fund to strengthen and improve access to comprehensive primary health care in urban areas of 13 states of India.
The Union Government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday signed a $300 million loan. The ADB funding will benefit over 256 million urban dwellers including 51 million from slum areas.
Rajat Kumar Mishra, Additional Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance and Takeo Konishi, Country Director of ADB’s India Resident Mission, signed the agreement.
The programme will be implemented in urban areas across 13 states: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and West Bengal.
The programme is supported by a $2 million technical assistance grant from ADB’s Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction to provide support for programme implementation and coordination, capacity building, innovation, knowledge sharing and application of scalable best practices across the healthcare system.
