The paper examines the adequacy of the health workforce in the public health sector in rural India. We find that even after a decade of implementation of the NRHM, India’s rural health sector has been suffering from an acute shortage of health workforce. The shortage of health workforce...

Availability of nurses in the rural health centres is a major concern in India. The numbers of nurses are not sufficient to meet the health care needs. In this paper we make an attempt to examine the current situation of the nursing workforce in the public health sector in rural India. We find...