REGISTERED No. D-(D)-72
The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (ii)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 553] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1976/PAUSA 2, 1898
Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation
MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY PLANNING
(Department of Health)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 23rd December 1976
S.O. 827(E).—The Committee on Multipurpose Workers under Health and Family Planning Programme set up on 28th October. 1972 in their report submitted on 15th September, 1973 recommended reorientation of existing Uni-purpose Workers inhe geld of Health and Family Planning into Multi-purpose Workers. Based on these recommendations the reorientation of the Multipurpose Workers has started. Their scope of functions is also being enlarged so that they not only provide preventive and promotive health services but also a modicum of curative services to the people in the rural areas.
2. The Group on Medical Education and Support Manpower set up on 1st November. 1974 in their report submitted in April, 1975 inter-alia suggested the creation of a cadre of Health Assistants to supervise the Multipurpose Workers and act as a link between them and the doctors at the Primary Health Centres. The Group also suggested that people drawn from the community itself should be given some training so as to involve them, in rendering basic health services to the rural areas. Pursuant to the recommendations of the Group the Ministry has taken steps to initiate training of primary school teachers, gram sevaks, village post-masters and traditional Dais to enable them to provide primary health care in the community.
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2 3 86 T HB GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY PART II—SEC. 3(ill9. In view of the paucity of preventive and curative services in the rural areas it has been suggested that there is need to consider the desirability of having a Hart-time oemi-professlonal worker in India who Is not interested In seeking eminence in medical profession which is available through high specialisation and work in medical institutions located in urban centres. The Chinese experiment In having bare-foot doctors is cited as an example.
4. The Government of India, therefore, hereby appoint a Committee with the iollo'wing composition:
Chairman
1. Shri B. Slvaraman, Member, Planning Commission.
Members
2. Shrl Gian Prakash, Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Planning.
3. Shrl B, C. Mathur, Addl: Secretary, Department of Personnel & A:R:
4. Shri P. Murari, Health Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu.
3, Dr. G. S. Mutalik, Director of Medical Education and Research, Govern- ment of Maharashtra.
8. Dr. B. N. Tandon, Professor of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
7. Shri Prem Nath, Joint Secretary (Finance) Ministry of Health & Family
Planning.
Member-Secretary
8. Shri C. R. Krishnamurthi, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family
Planning.
0. The terms of reference of the Committee will be, following the recommen- dations made by the Committee on Multipurpose Workers and the Group on the nmcHoal Education and Support Manpower, to—
(i) examine the programme for training and employment of pragmatically trained para-medical cadres and recommend steps if any required further for early implementation of the programme;
(ii) examine the concept of "barefoot doctors" in the context of the decision already taken with respect to community level workers and suggest any modifications they consider necessary; and
(iii) suggest the methods of integration of the concept of the barefoot doctors with pragmatically trained para-medical cadres aimed at providing effective health, nutrition and family planning services to the rural community.
8. The Committee may consult such other persons and institutions as it consider •e^essarj, and will submit its report to the Government within three months irom the date of this Notification.
7. The expenditure on T.A. and D.A. of the officials is to be met from the source from which their pay is drawn. The T.A. and D.A. of non-officials will fti governed by the orders issued by the Ministry of Finance from time to time. T5"e expenditure involved on- T.A. and D.A. of non-officlala, if any will be met irom the budget of the Ministry of Health and Family Planning (Department of Health).
1. (This supersedes this Ministry's notification of even number dated the 15th "e*embf>r, 1978.
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C. R. KRISHNAMURTHI, Jt. Secy.
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