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:

■ GoI allocations and releases;

■ Incentives and penalties to states under conditionality framework;

■ NHM approvals and expenditures as per programmatic components; and

■ Outputs and outcomes.