Delhi government has issued notice for hiring of doctors to run its 300 mohalla clinics. Officials said that the government willbe paying doctors Rs 40 per patient with a guarantee of 75 patients daily.

Recently, the government inaugurated 100 new mohalla clinics across the state, which led to a rise in the total number of such clinics to 301. A government official said, "Our aim is to take the number of clinics to 500 in the next two to three months".

The government had promised 1,000 clinics within the first year of AamAadmi Party coming into power. He added that the slow pace of work in starting new clinicswas mainly due to lack of land.

"The land-owning agencies werent very forthcoming to provide space. Therefore, we have started to rent spaces for the clinics. Some people have also offered their premises for opening the primary health centers free of cost", the official reported. He added that there is no shortage of manpower and the government is getting good response to its calls for medical professionals who are needed to run the clinics.