Nikshay Poshan Yojana is a government scheme in India to provide 500 rupees per month (1000 rupees per month since November 2024) [1] for tuberculosis patients to buy food. [2]
By February 2019 the programme reported that more than 10,000 people had received benefits in Delhi and 3800 were taking benefit in Sonitpur district. [3] [4]
Since 2018 the patient advocacy group Survivors Against TB have publicly requested that the government increase the benefits of the programme and to make enrollment more routine for more patients. [5] [6]
A 2018 evaluation of the participant registry found problematic data, including an inability to do data deduplication in the system. [7]
In 2018 in Assam fewer than expected people had been enrolling in the programme. [8]
2018 studies in Delhi and Vadodara examined patient participation in the programme. [2] [9] Both studies found that about half the eligible participants received payment. [2] [9] Payment came for many people five months after the start of treatment. [2] [9] Major barriers to getting payment included lack of bank accounts among patients and difficulty completing the registration to join the program. [2] [9]