The National Health Mission (NHM) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) largest public health programme. It consists of two sub-missions:

■ National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), and

■ National Urban Health Mission (NUHM).

Using government data, this brief reports on:

■ Allocations and expenditures,

■ NHM approvals as per programmatic components and constituent activities, and

■ Physical and human resources.