{"id":14601,"date":"2023-02-11T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T05:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=14601"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:27:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:57:45","slug":"pm-abhim","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/pm-abhim","title":{"rendered":"PM-\u00adABHIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Union government has signed loan agreements to borrow up to \u20b913,879 crore to strengthen health infrastructure from international agencies. The loan agreements have been signed to augment PM-\u00adABHIM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>More on news:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The loan agreements have been signed with <\/span><b>Asian Development Bank (ADB)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for $300 million (\u20b92,474 crore) and with<\/span><b> Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for 50 billion Japanese Yen (\u20b93,162 crore).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, the<\/span><b> World Bank<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has approved $1 billion (\u20b9\u00908,243 crore) IBRD loans.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>About PM \u2013 Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM):<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Objective: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To <\/span><b>fill gaps in health infrastructure,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> especially in critical and primary care facilities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Focus Areas:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Development of capacities of health systems and institutions across the continuum of care at all levels viz. primary, secondary and tertiary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Preparing Health systems in responding effectively to the current and future pandemics\/disasters.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It targets to <\/span><b>build an IT enabled disease surveillance system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by developing a network of surveillance laboratories at block, district, regional and national levels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Major inititiatives:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support for <\/span><b>construction of 17,788 rural Health and Wellness Centres<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Establishment of <\/span><b>11,024 Urban Health and Wellness Centres.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Setting up <\/span><b>3,382 Block Public Health Units<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Setting up of <\/span><b>Integrated Public Health Labs <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in all districts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Additional information:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>About Asian Development Bank<\/b> <b>(ADB):<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>regional development bank<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> established in <\/span><b>1966.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span><b> provides loans, technical assistance, grants,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and equity investments to promote social and economic development.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Headquarter: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manila, Philippines.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Members:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 68 members, 49 from within Asia including India\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Japan <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">holds the <\/span><b>largest proportion of shares in ADB<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> followed by the USA, because Japan is one of the largest shareholders of the bank, the president has always been Japanese.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>official <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United Nations Observer.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><b><i>News Source: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/govt-to-borrow-13879-cr-to-strengthen-health-infra-from-international-agencies\/article66493903.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hindu\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 Recently, the Union government has signed loan agreements to borrow up to \u20b913,879 crore to strengthen health infrastructure from international agencies. The loan agreements have been signed to augment PM-\u00adABHIM. More on news: The loan agreements have been signed with Asian Development Bank (ADB) for $300 million (\u20b92,474 crore) and with Japan International Cooperation&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/pm-abhim\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM-\u00adABHIM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[325,323,324,322],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/14601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/14601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14601"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=14601"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=14601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}