Ni-kshay Portal
Also called: Ni-kshay · Topic: Transparency, Accountability and e-Governance · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
Ni-kshay is the online platform of the National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP), run by the Union Health Ministry. Each TB patient is registered, or "notified", on it, and the portal tracks them from diagnosis until treatment ends. It also pays the patient's nutrition money by Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), which sends cash straight into the patient's bank account with no middlemen. No Act of Parliament created it. It is an executive e-governance tool, and it shows how digital tracking and DBT can cut leakages in a welfare scheme.
Example
Under the Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana, started in April 2018, each notified TB patient gets ₹1,000 a month by DBT through Ni-kshay for the whole course of treatment. The portal also produces the programme's treatment-success figures. These count only patients registered on it, so a patient who is never diagnosed or never reported does not appear in them.
Don't confuse with
- Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana: the cash nutrition scheme (2018). Ni-kshay is the portal that pays this money. It is not the scheme itself.
- Ni-kshay Mitra: a programme launched in 2022 in which individuals and organisations adopt TB patients and support them. It is community help, not a digital system.