The correct answer is 2.5%.

• National Health Policy 2017
  • The broad principles of the Policy are centred on professionalism, integrity and ethics, equity, affordability, universality, patient-centered and quality of care, accountability, and pluralism.
  • It aims to achieve universal access to good quality health care services without anyone having to face financial hardship as a consequence.
  • It intends to gradually increase public health expenditure to 2.5% of the GDP.
  • It proposes free drugs, free diagnostics, and free emergency and essential healthcare services in public hospitals.
  • The policy advocates allocating two-thirds of resources to primary care.
  • It proposes two beds per 1,000 of the population to enable access within the first 60 minutes after a traumatic injury.
  • To reduce morbidity and preventable mortality of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by advocating pre-screening.
  • It highlights AYUSH as a tool for effective prevention and therapy that is safe and cost-effective.
  • It proposes introducing Yoga in more schools and offices to promote good health.
  • It also proposed reforming medical education.​

• What are the key targets?
  • Increase Life Expectancy at birth from 67.5 to 70 by 2025.
  • Reduce Fertility Rate to 2.1 by 2025.
  • Reduce Infant Mortality Rate to 28 by 2019.
  • Reduce Under Five Mortality to 23 by 2025.
  • Achieve the global 2020 HIV target (also termed 90:90:90 global target).
  • To reduce premature mortality from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases by 25 per cent by 2025.
  • Reducing the prevalence of blindness to 0.25 per 1000 persons by 2025.
  • The disease burden to be reduced by one-third from the current levels.
  • Elimination of leprosy by 2018, kala-azar by 2017, and lymphatic filariasis in endemic pockets by 2017.