National Health Policy and Its Implementation Debabar Banerji THE Government of India's Statement on National Health Policy, which was: placed before the Parliament recently, is an interesting document. It reaffirms the government's pledge to fulfil the promises the leadership had made to the people of India halt a century buck. It is, however, difficult to find out from the Statement how the government intends to overcome the obstacles which have come in the way of redeeming these promises in the past.