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About 55,512 habitations and 34,000 schools have been provided drinking water supply till December 2006 under the Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission. More ambitious targets have been set for 2007-08 to deal with both non-coverage and slippage. I propose to enhance the allocation for the Mission from Rs 4,680 crore in 2006-07 to Rs 5,850 crore in 2007-08.
As regards the total sanitation campaign, I propose to increase the provision from Rs 720 crore this year to Rs 954 crore next year.
Provision up for AIDS control
The Government has brought HIV/AIDS out of the closet and promised bold and determined efforts to achieve zero-level growth of the disease. The epidemic will be deemed 'stabilised' if the prevalence rate is less than one per cent of the population. National Aids Control Programme (NACP)-III, starting in 2007-08 and building on NACP-I and NACP-II, will target the high-risk groups in all the States. We will expand access to condoms and ensure universal access to blood screening and safe blood. More hospitals will provide treatment to prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to child. Support will be given to the protocol on paediatric dosage developed by Indian doctors and launched in November 2006. For 2007-08, I propose to step up the provision for the AIDS control programme to Rs 969 crore.
Strategy for polio eradication
Last year, I had expressed the hope that polio will be eliminated from the country by December 2007. However, there was an outbreak in western Uttar Pradesh in early 2006. The strategy for polio eradication has been revised. The number of polio rounds will be increased, monovalent vaccine will be introduced, and there will be intensive coverage in the 20 high risk districts of Uttar Pradesh and 10 districts of Bihar. The programme has been integrated into the NRHM. The ASHAs and the Anganwadi workers will visit every household and track every child for the immunisation programme. To achieve the goal of eliminating polio, I propose to provide Rs 1,290 crore in 2007-08.
Child & women welfare
In the second phase of expansion of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the Government has sanctioned 173 ICDS projects, 107,274 Anganwadi centres and 25,961 mini-Anganwadi centres. The Government is committed to expand the scheme in order to cover all habitations and settlements during the Eleventh Plan and to reach out to pregnant women, lactating mothers and all children below the age of six. I propose to increase the allocation for ICDS from Rs 4,087 crore in 2006-07 to Rs 4,761 crore in 2007-08.
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