Categorisation of districts under NACP-III

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To

The Moderator, AIDS India Group,

I would like to post a mail for wider circulation to

clarify the Discrepancy In Classification of Districts

Under NACP-III, NACO is going to implement its HIV Control programmes,

intensively in 222 A and B category districts of India. Like wise the districts

have been categorized into A, B, C, D groups. While going through the data it is

found that there is a huge lacuna in the data that are given by NACO and that of

West Bengal Sate AIDS Prevention and Control Society.

To site a few: the proposal, that was submitted by CCM to Global Fund Round 7,

mentions 187 A and B category districts which in itself is a contradiction to a

total of 222 district that are to be served under NACP-III plan. Likewise NACO

has categorized three- A districts and four- B category districts while the West

Bengal State PIP has categorized four districts under A category and four

districts under B category districts.

In the data revealed under State PIP the district of 24 Parganas (S) has been

categorized as A district but the same district has been given the status of C

district. Again the district of Burdwan has been categorized as the A district

in both the plans but Durgapur has been mentioned separately as A category

district under NACO website. But as far we know Durgapur is in Burdwan

district, then how could it be categorized as a separate district. The district

of Purulia in the state PIP plan has been categorized as A district while under

NACO plan it has been kept as a C category district. Again Hoogly in the sate

PIP has been mentioned as C district but in the NACO data the same district has

been categorized as the A district. Moreover East Midnapore district under state

PIP has been categorized as a B district while NACO mentions it as a C category

district. West Midnapore has been placed under B category in NACO site while the

state PIP mentions it as a C category district. The district of Darjeeling has

been placed as B category district under state PIP while NACO mentions it as a C

category district.

Under these circumstances, where there is a huge discrepancy in state vs.

national level data, could any body from NACO or from West Bengal SACS clarify!

Dr. Rumeli Das

Assistant Director

Child In Need Institute (CINI)

www.cini-india.org

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