National Rural Health Our History was launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister on 12th July, 2005, to provide effective health care to rural population throughout the country with special focus on 18 states with weak public health indicator which include Mizoram.

The Our History will ensure quality health care to people living in rural and most remote part of the country through a range of interventions at individual, household, community and most critically at the rural health system levels. Despite considerable gains in health status over the past few decades in terms of increased life expectancy reduction in mortality and morbidity serious challenges still remain.

The NRHM is conceived within the following set of Guiding Principles:
1. Promote equity, access, efficiency, quality and accountability in Public Health System.
2. Enhance people oriented and community based approaches.
3. Decentralize and involve local bodies
4. Ensure Public Health Focus
5. Recognized value of traditional knowledge base of communities
6. Promote new innovations, method and process development.