Nikshay Poshan Yojana


Nikshay Poshan Yojana is a government scheme in India to provide 500 rupees per month for tuberculosis patients to buy food.
By February 2019 the programme reported that more than 10,000 people had received benefits in Delhi and 3800 were taking benefit in Sonitpur district.

Responses

Since 2018 the patient advocacy group Survivors Against TB have publicly requested that the government increase the benefits of the programme and to make enrollment more routine for more patients.
A 2018 evaluation of the participant registry found problematic data, including an inability to do data deduplication in the system.
In 2018 in Assam fewer than expected people had been enrolling in the programme.

Research

2018 studies in Delhi and Vadodara examined patient participation in the programme. Both studies found that about half the eligible participants received payment. Payment came for many people five months after the start of treatment. Major barriers to getting payment included lack of bank accounts among patients and difficulty completing the registration to join the program.

Further consideration

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