Placing Health into Panchayats Agenda- The Swasth Panchayat Scheme: This is a programme to support local health planning and to enhance PRI role in health. An indicator based health & human development index has been prepared for all Panchayats of the state that is hamlet centred so as to capture even the intra-panchayat variations. At present, the HHDI is ready for 9141 Panchayats out of 9820 Panchayats in the state. Hon’ble Chief Minister of the state has declared an award for two top Panchayats of each block based on this index and also provisions are made to support weaker Panchayats identified under this process. The Programme is now in the second year of implementation.