Table 7 Scale up cost of ASHA facilitated PLA women’s group intervention across India.
Particulars | Amount (INR) per ASHA/ASHA facilitator | Total amount (INR in crores) for nine hundred thousand ASHAs |
|---|---|---|
Training on PLA facilitation to ASHA facilitators (as 20 ASHAs are supervised by one ASHA facilitator, around 45,000 ASHA facilitators will be trained on different phases of PLA for 10 days at the rate of INR 1000 per day. These ASHA facilitators will provide support to nine hundred thousand ASHAs to conduct PLA with women’s groups) | 10,000 | 45 |
Printing of PLA modules for ASHAs | 500 | 45 |
Printing of picture cards for ASHAs (for each ASHA, 20 picture cards @ INR 10 per card will be printed) | 200 | 18 |
Incentives to ASHAs for facilitating PLA meetings with women’s groups (Each ASHA will conduct 20 meetings with women’s group and will be incentivised @ INR 150 per meeting) | 3000 | 270 |
Total budgetary outlay for scaling up ASHA facilitated PLA with women’s groups across India | 378 | |
Total budgetary allocation in health in India during the year 2017–2018 (% of total budgetary outlay for scaling up ASHA facilitated women’s group to total health budget during the year 2017–2018) | 48,852.5 (0.77%) | |
Total budgetary outlay for NHM in India during the year 2017–2018 (% of total budgetary outlay for scaling up ASHA facilitated women’s group to total NHM budget during the year 2017–2018) | 27,131.2 (1.39%) | |