14.minimum Needs Programme

MINIMUM NEEDS
PROGRAMME
INTRODUCTION
India plans eventually to meet the basic
needs of all members of its population,
and the government periodically sets
targets for reaching these goals.
India's Minimum Needs Program was
established by the 5th 5 Year Plan and
initiated in 1974-75 will continue during
the Sixth Plan.
MINIMUM NEEDS PROGRAMME
OBJECTIVE
 To establish a network of basic services and
facilities of social consumption in all the
areas up to nationally-accepted norms,
within a specified time frame.
 The programme is designed to assist in

raising living standards and in reducing the
regional disparities in development.
COMPONENTS OF THE
PROGRAMME
 Elementary Education
 Rural Health
 Rural water supply
 Rural Roads
 Rural Electrification
 Rural Housing
 Environmental Improvement of Urban
Slums
 Nutrition
REVIEW
 With the Sixth Five Year Plan 1980—85, this

programme would enter the seventh year of its
implementation
 During the past years States such as Punjab,
Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala, Andhra
Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have made
good progress.
 while States like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal and
the North Eastern States have lagged behind.
MINIMUM NEEDS
PROGRAMME
 For optimizing benefits, these programmes have
to be taken as a package and related to specific
areas and beneficiary groups
 A sectoral approach in which programmes are
formulated and implemented depart-mentally
will not be adequate either for the overall
development of the area or for bringing about the
desired distribution of benefits
 The need for integration is especially greater at
the micro-level where the programmes are
implemented
The seven Basic Services identified for
priority attention are:
100 per cent coverage of provision of
safe drinking water in rural and urban
areas
100 per cent coverage of primary health
service facilities in rural and urban areas
Universalisation of primary education
Provision of Public Housing Assistance to all
shelter less poor families.
Supplementary Nutrition via Extension of Mid-
Day Meal Programme in primary schools to all
rural blocks and urban slums and disadvantaged
sections and supplementary nutrition
programme implemented as part of ICDS.
Provision of connectivity to all unconnected
villages and habitations.
BASIC SERVICES
Primary Health Facilities
The primary health care infrastructure provides the

integrated promotive, preventive, curative and
rehabilitative services to the population close to their
residence.
It is estimated that over 80 per cent of the health care needs
of the population can be met by the primary health care
infrastructure;
only the rest may require referral to the secondary or tertiary
health care institutions.

COMPONENTS OF THE
PROGRAMME
Rural Health
Rural health infrastructure would be further strengthened in
order to achieve the objective of Health-for-All by 2000 A.D.
The norms envisaged are:
 One Community Health Volunteer for every village or a
population of 1000 chosen by the community to form the base
unit.
 One sub-centre for a population of 5000 in plains and 3000 in
hilly and tribal areas.
 One PHC for 30,000 population in the plains and 20,000 in
hilly and tribal areas.
 One Community Health Centre (CHC) for population of one
lakh .
BASIC SERVICES CONT..
 Primary health care infrastructure in urban

areas should consist of health and family
welfare posts to cover 10,000 to 15,000
population manned by an ANM and one
male multi-purpose worker with a helper
 Urban health and family welfare centre
should cater to about 1-1.5 lakh population.
These centers should be provided with
two Medical Officers and other
required supporting staff
they will provide preventive,
promotive, curative and rehabilitative
services and essential maternal, child
health and contraceptive care.


Elementary Education
 The objective continues to be the
universalisation of
 It is proposed through the formal system, to
achieve this objective in two stages
 95 per cent of enrolment in the age group 6—
11
 In achieving cent percent enrolment for

the age group 6- 11, the constraint is
predominantly the socioeconomic
circumstances of families below the
poverty line. This aspect will hence need
special attention.
 Rural Water Supply
 The total number of problem villages conforming to the
following criteria is estimated to be 1.90 lakh as on 1-4-
1980:
 Those which do not have an assured source of drinking
water within a reasonable distance, say 1.6 kms.
 Those where the sources of water supply are endemic to
water-borne diseases like cholera, guinea- worms etc
 Those where the available water suffers from excess of
salinity, iron or fluorides or other toxic elements
hazardous to health.
 During the Sixth Plan, the effort will be to cover all the
problem villages of the three categories mentioned
above
Rural Roads
 Under the Fifth Plan the norm was to link up all
villages with a population of 1500 or more with all
weather roads
 It is proposed to connect with roads all the remaining
villages with a population of 1500 and above and 50
per cent of the total number of villages in the
population group 1000-1500 by 1990
 Rural Electrification
 In the Fifth Plan the target was to cover 40 per cent of
the rural population under electrification.
 It has been decided to shift the criterion of population
coverage to village coverage
 To ensure that at least 60 per cent of the villages in
each State and Union Territory are electrified by 1990.
 Housing for Landless Labor Households
 It has been estimated that the number of
landless labor households needing housing
assistance would be around 14.5 million by
March 1985
 So far 7.7 million landless families have been
allotted house-sites
 It is proposed to allot house-sites to the
remaining 6.8 million families during the Plan
period
 Environmental improvement of Urban
Blunts
 A particular area becomes a slum not
because of its structure but because of its
environment and insanitation.
 Nutrition
 The nutrition programme has two components—

 Special Nutrition
 Mid-Day Meals
 The Mid-day Meals (MDM) Programme for
the age group 6-11 was introduced in 1962-63
 It provides mid-day meals to these children
for 200 days in a year and 300 calories and 8-
12 grams of protein per children day
 It was made a part of the Minimum Needs
Programme in the Fifth Plan
 It will continue as part of the MNP in the
Sixth
 Public Distribution System
 The Public Distribution System has been
an important part of the Government's
strategy for ensuring food security
 Food grains, mainly rice and wheat, are
distributed through network of Fair Price
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MINIMUM NEEDS

 The programme is designed to assist in

 With the Sixth Five Year Plan 1980—85, this

The primary health care infrastructure provides the

 Primary health care infrastructure in urban

 In achieving cent percent enrolment for

 The nutrition programme has two components—

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