Nadda trashes Nitishs HOLLOW CLAIM in Health sector

The Union Health Minister said the state government could draw only Rs 1,148 crore out of a total allocation of Rs 2,000 crore under National Health Mission for 2014-15.

Out of even this truncated lifting of funds, the state government instead of providing it to Health department, kept the money of first instalment in its coffer for 100 days and second instalment for 89 days thus delaying the implementation unnecessarily, he said.

Similarly, out of a total of Rs 3,286 crore given by the Centre for construction of building in hospitals in 2014-15, only Rs 1,843 crore could be spent by the state government, he added.

Under National Urban Health Mission, Nadda said 54 cities of Bihar had been selected, but the state government could send comprehensive plan for 15 cities only.

Despite several reminders, the Nitish Kumar government had till date not been able to provide land for construction of second AIIMS in Bihar in addition to the one in Patna, he said.

Asked that Bill and Melinda Gates foundation which carried out anti-polio drive in Bihar praised Nitish Kumar for eradicating polio from the state, Nadda said, "this was done by an outside body whose success Nitish Kumar was taking without marshalling his own health resources."