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Health to All: Policy Intervention Through Aspirational Blocks Programme in India

Author(s) Dr. Manasi Vilas Gore, Dr. Meenal Preyas Annachhatre, Ms. Dhanashree Kandalgaokar
Country India
Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 3 of the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” is to “ensure healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages”. The Constitution of the World Health Organization clearly states, “The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition”. Health being the public good and that too a merit good, state intervention becomes an essential activity for ensuring and guaranteeing it to the commonest of the commonest. In a country like India, the right to health is not explicitly recognized in the Indian Constitution, but it is considered a fundamental right under Article 21. This means that the state is obligated to provide health services and ensure access to healthcare. Thus, in the federal structure in India, the public health falls under the State domain. Good health is also clearly determined by other basic human rights including access to safe drinking water and sanitation, nutritious foods, adequate housing, education and safe working conditions.
In this regard, the Aspirational Blocks Programme (ABP) was launched on January 7, 2023, focuses on improving governance to enhance the quality of life of citizens in the most difficult and underdeveloped blocks which earlier were addressed by the Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP). The switch over from Districts to the Blocks is going deeper into the assurance of better quality of life at the micro level. This is because, the macro picture is many times quite different from the micro picture. An Inter-Ministerial Committee in consultation with States identified 500 blocks from across 27 states and 4 Union Territories of India under this programme.
This paper brings out the efficacy of this programme as a tool to transform the health conditions in one of these Aspirational Blocks in Maharashtra, Talasari in Palghar district which was not listed under the ADP. It primarily focusses on Health and Nutrition as one of the themes under this programme which is the most weighted theme at 30% with 14 sub-indicators. This paper would thus offer an overall picture of the Palghar district and more specifically about Talasari block with reference to the challenges in attaining the objective of Health and Nutrition to all as a part of the SDGs based on the secondary data sources.
Keywords India, ABP, health, nutrition
Field Sociology > Economics
Published In Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2025
Published On 2025-07-08
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i04.50545
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9s9m9
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