No blood banks in 81 districts in India: Centre
Eighty-one out of almost 700 districts in India do not have a blood bank, as per a statement by the government on Friday in the Lok Sabha. Districts in states and Union Territories including Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand and Manipur are among these 81 districts.