The Health and Education Rights Group organised  a consultation for release of demand charter on health and education and notify the new State Government on health and education priorities. The programme was organised 24 here on Monday.

 The demands for education and health were released in presence of members of CSOs, mediapersons, development practitioners and other eminent personalities of the State, which will be submitted to the Chief Minister along with the concerned Ministers and Secretaries of Health and Education Departments.

Along with that engagement with different political parties/ candidates will be done as a part of post election campaign so as to ensure the education and health rights as promised in the manifestos of the different political parties.

The key demands on health include establishment of a Regulatory Authority to control the quality health services, pricing, fairness, safety, privacy and standard of functioning of private and public healthcare institutions in the State; free provisioning of consultations, drugs, diagnostics and transportation to be made available, accessible, and affordable for the patients in all hospitals;mechanism for patient’s satisfaction survey; grievance redressal systems; constitution of State Authority of Medical Employment Board; budget allocation for health sector equal to 3.5 percent of the total GSDP;  effective implementation of Clinical Establishment Act, a community based one stop hospital system and shift from insurance models coverage systems to public health centre centric healthcare models, among others.

Thedemands ineducation include a comprehensive State policy for education to strengthen public education system; transparent policy for teachers’ recruitment, transfer and career development; provisions of coaching for candidates of underprivileged communitiesto appear TET for teachership; training teachers from tribal communities  to address language and cultural issues; capacity building allowances to teachers and test of their competence once in every five years; MLE policy in letter and spirit and strategy for ensuring quality and equitable education for children of Dalit and  minority communities; girl children and children with disability; budget provisioning as per the composition of population of  different marginalized groups; effective monitoring of schools and onsite support to teachers;    30 percent of the total Budget of the State for education and 6 percent of the GDP through allocations from the Central Budget, etc.