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On the occasion of 65th Martyrdom of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi ji, while Inaugurating two days all India Gandhian Summit Organised by Gandhi Global Family Honr,ble Union Minister Gulam Nabi Azad for Health and Family Welfare and President of Gandhi Global Family at Guwahati gave his public address to a large Gathering who assembled in remember-ace of Father of the Nation and paid tribute to him at Venenary Ground.
The full text of the speech of Honr,ble Minister and President of GGF is as below.
At the outset let me wish you all a very happy new year. I am very happy to be in your midst today. You all are aware that National Rural Health Mission is the flagship programme of UPA government.
Our government is committed to providing affordable, accessible and equitable healthcare to the rural masses of the country.
I am happy to note that the Govt. of Assam has made very good use of the assistance provided by the Central Government for upgrading its health system.
It has resulted in improved health services in the State, which is also being seen in the outcome parameters now. Assam recorded a drop of 90 points in Maternal Mortality Ratio, from 480 per 100,000 live births in 2004-06 to 390 per 100,000 live births in 2007-09.
In child health, after stagnating for many years before the start of NRHM, Assam has now shown impressive progress in IMR also, which has come down to 58 per 1000 live births in 2010 from 68 per 1000 live births in 2005.
The Prime Minister in his Independence Day speech had flagged the need to provide the common man with access to improved health services.
Calling for the 12th plan to be specially focused on health, the PM promised that funds would not be a constraint in the important areas of education and health.
On the national level, the achievements of NRHM are well visible, as currently country’s IMR has reduced from 58 per 1000 live births in 2005 to 47 per 1000 live births in 2010.
Similarly, MMR has declined from 254 per 100,000 live births during 2004-06 to 212 per 100,000 live births in 2007-09. Further, TFR reduced to 2.6 in 2009 from 2.9 in 2005.
Number of reported deaths due to malaria, kala azar and dengue has reduced considerably.
Further, the target of Leprosy Control Programme and Blindness Control Programme has been met and iodine deficiency disorders have ceased to exist as a public health problem.
Even in terms of output, we have seen good results. There has been considerable increase in the OPD and IPD figures for the public sector facilities across the country.
The percentage of institutional delivery has seen a sharp jump, more so in the so-called backward states. The number of beneficiaries of Janani Suraksha Yojna has crossed 1.1 crore per annum.
Pulse Polio Programme has seen spectacular success during last calendar year, when only one case of paralysis due to wild poliovirus came to light as compared to hundreds and thousands that the country used to witness.
However as each Common Review Mission has made clear, having brought more and more people to the public health system, the challenge is to address the concerns of quality of healthcare.
How to make the deliveries safe, how to take care of neonatal mortality, how to address maternal anemia, how to address the problem of malnutrition, how to address ailments at the appropriate level of healthcare facility, how to develop a good referral system, how to make the health system sustainable and more women friendly are some of the key challenges before us.
We know that the progress across the States and across different themes is variable and this CRM has shown that in some areas, there has been much improvement in making it safe –like in emergency transport, or training of skilled birth attendants, but where specialists are needed, it is still very slow progress.
We have taken many new initiatives under NRHM in the recent past. Mother and Child tracking system through name based, address based, telephone number based tracking will lead to better utilization of resources. Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram has been launched recently, which provides service guarantee to pregnant women and neonates accessing the public healthcare system.
To address the newborn mortality, we had launched Navjat Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, which is a training programme for the healthcare providers. Due to our efforts, after many years, for the first time the rural IMR has fallen by 4 points in the year 2010.
Polio has been a striking success story. We have not seen a single case of paralytic polio due to wild poliovirus for the last one-year and India is on the verge of being declared a non-endemic country.
I am happy to note that Assam has used the funds under NRHM innovatively. I am particularly aware of the Boat clinics of Assam, which provide health care to people in very inaccessible areas.
I am also happy to know that the State is running Mamoni and Majoni schemes for control of maternal malnutrition and anemia and for encouraging the girl child respectively.
However, I would like to sound a note of caution also. Though you have shown good progress in MMR and IMR, it still remains very high. MMR of Assam is highest in the country and you need to do a lot in this area.
Similarly, child health and newborn health also needs to be improved further. Japanese encephalitis has also emerged as an area of concern in Assam and you need to work hard in this area.
Finally, I would urge you all to pay attention to the issue of population stabilization. We have to do this through meeting the unmet need, better supply of services and commodities and awareness generation.
If the base of the population pyramid remains ever increasing, we will only be chasing the numbers and it will be difficult for us to devote our energies and resources on improvement in quality.
The 12th Plan and the continuation of the NRHM provides even greater opportunity and space for living up to the promises we have made to people and I invite all of you to continue to make this exciting journey with us as partners.
I would end with a quote of Mahatma Gandhi, whose death anniversary falls on 30th January, i.e. tomorrow and whose life has deeply influenced me.
I quote “Think of the poorest person you have ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him.” Unquote.
Thank you all.
Mont Blanc Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi to Salute his Stand on Non Voilence, Peace and Cultural Ethos.
Mont Blanc on Tuesday launched a set of premium pens costing Rs 11.3 lakh under its limited-edition series commemorating 241 miles travelled byMahatma Gandhi during the Salt March.
West Projects Brand Gandhi to Promote Pen Just in Time for Gandhi Jayanti. Oct 2 .Gandhiji Stood for Truth, Peace, and Non Voilence. and workd to enchace the Cultures
Gandhiji Was a Simple Man with High Values, His dress code and his personality can not be very attractive to the west, once they made joke of his Dress Code today the times have changed they salute his values and principles.
He took the brunt of the British, Brutal abuse and hurt on his body and soul with a smile and stood for peace and non voilence.
The Irony is India and Indians are failing today to inculcate the principles and values he stood for.
Our political system, our Corportate System, Our Unions, Our Media, Our Services, Our Aam Admi is no way near to the values set by Gandhiji. Baring few none can claim to be near to Gandhiji”s Value System.
We are happy putting his poster in our Govt Buildings, and using his name only on our currency notes with very little respect to him.
“The System India” is Under Threat of Moral Drain. Unfortunate.
We should be proud we are Indians Because Gandhi is ours and he lived and died for the unity of Faith, unity of Nation,stived to enhace Indian Culture.
He fought against the Enemies of India the British, and stood as a Iron Wall against the attrocities of British. Always voiced that we Indians are superior in our souls to the West and West is not a culture to be admired and followed.
The Irony is The West is respecting his values and principles today and we are keeping him in shelve only to open with a message on Oct 2.
It is good the west is appreciateing the values he stood FOR, in most respected manner by associateing him with a pen, to promote non voilence and peace in the world. At a time when voilence is order of the times, and love for peace has lost its fragrance.
We know pen is mightier than the sword. Pen also symbolic to truth and non voilance.
Some may differ by saying the west is using his name for material gains, I don’t agree with this kind of arugment.
We have not done enough to promote Brand Gandhi we have no right to suspect otherers when they try to teach a lesson or two of Gandhi to the World.
In a time where in we slipped to levels where Shoe was Mightier than the pen, for a Jounalist who hit P Chidambarram with a shoe, when he failed to get answers to his questions. And Advami, Manmohan, Bush recived the shoe for some reason or the other.
World needed to prove that Pen is still mightier than the sword and shoe, for all times.
It is good that a westerner thought of giving respect to Gandhiji By using him as an Icon for pormoting peace and non-voilence.
Today world is suffering from both.
After 60 plus years after Gandhi who was killed irronically in a violent act by Nathuram Godse a fellow Indian.
Babu was put to rest by an act he stood to earse all his life.
He wanted Volence in us to Die. But the tragedy was a Voilent Indian Godse Killed Babu, the Mahatma.
On the other hand it sounds that the Ashram of Gandhiji is straved with funds for its development and living up to the values Gandhiji Stood for.
Why we Indian can’t do more on promoting Gandhi Ideology why are we content by just saying he is Father of the Nation. Why ?
The donation by Mont Balnc is going for building a block for the distitute children by the Ashram authority headed by his Grand Son Tushar Gandhi.
When we fail some one will rise and do our job unfinished by Gandhiji.