03.02.01.05. How are long-term care budgets allocated and dispersed, across levels of the long- term care system? Do budgets get dispersed through geographical areas? | India

03.02.01.05. How are long-term care budgets allocated and dispersed, across levels of the long- term care system? Do budgets get dispersed through geographical areas? | India

06 Jul 2022

At the administrative level, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment works in close collaboration with the state governments. The budgets are generally dispersed to the states through the respective national schemes, which are responsible of providing the health care services to older persons.

The Financial Management Groups (FMG) of the program management support units, working under the National Health Mission, help the state and district levels maintain accounts, release funds, and create expenditure reports along with utilisation certificates and conduct audits (Verma & Khanna, 2013). The funds are allocated to each state/union territory through the State Health Society (SHS), which enables the various activities of the programmes to be carried out (Verma & Khanna, 2013). The SHS further disperses the funds to CHCs, PHCs and Sub-centres via the District Health Society (DHS), covering the state and district levels (Verma & Khanna, 2013).

References:

Verma, R., & Khanna, P. (2013). National program of health-care for the elderly in India: A hope for healthy ageing. International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 4(10), 1103–1107. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24319548