Madhya Pradesh: How merger of Public Health & Family Welfare Department and Medical Education Department benefit?

Public Health and Family Welfare Department and Medical Education Department will be merged and reconstituted as "Public Health and Medical Education Department". Medical colleges will be able to focus on critical/specialized treatment and medical education instead of providing routine medical services.

Effective monitoring of infant mortality and maternal mortality will be easier. Best practices of medical colleges can be used in health centres. It will become easier to affiliate district hospitals with medical colleges. There will be facility in better implementation and control of health policy and departmental schemes. The merger of both the departments was recommended in the roadmap of Atmanirbhar Madhya Pradesh.

University of Medical Sciences will conduct more courses

The Cabinet approved amendment in the provisions of Madhya Pradesh Medical University Act, 2011. Presently the University of Medical Sciences offers courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Ayurveda, Unani, Homeopathy, Naturopathy etc.

In view of increase in number of nursing and paramedical institutions and students, the University of Medical Sciences will be given the responsibility of conducting courses in subjects other than nursing and paramedical. Courses related to nursing and paramedical subjects will be conducted through other universities established under the Higher Education Department.

Prime Minister's College of Excellence in all districts

Under the National Education Policy, the Cabinet gave approval to establish in all districts at least one Prime Minister's College of Excellence. Additional 1845 academic posts and 387 non-academic posts have been approved in the selected colleges. For this, a total expenditure of Rs 485 crore was approved.

Approval of sixth pay scale

The Cabinet also approved sixth pay scale for the teachers/employees of non-government institutions receiving grants under the Tribal Affairs Department from January 1, 2006 and an estimated expenditure of Rs 206 crore 80 lakh.

Amendment in the Madhya Pradesh Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Ordinance, 2024 was also approved.