Question

Match List I (Health Planning Committees) with List II (Main Recommendations/Important Results) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists.

List I	List II
A. Shrivastava Committee	1. Malaria workers to look after FP work also
B. Chadah Committee	2. Integration of services from the highest to the lowest levels
C. Kartar Singh Committee	3. Led to creation of Health Guides
D. Jungalwalla Committee	4. Led to creation of multipurpose worker

• A. A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2
• B. A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
• C. A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
• D. A-2, B-4, C-1, D-3

Hint:

Match each committee to its single best known achievement: health guides, integration, multipurpose worker, or malaria-FP link.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Understanding the Question.
Each of these four committees shaped India's health workforce and planning between the 1960s and 1970s. We need to match each committee in List I with the single achievement in List II most linked to it.

Step 2: Shrivastava Committee (1975).
This committee, officially called the Group on Medical Education and Support Manpower, recommended a new cadre of community based part-time workers, the Village Health Guides, along with School Health Guides and a referral chain from village to district. So A matches item 3, "Led to creation of Health Guides".

Step 3: Chadah Committee (1963).
This committee reviewed the National Malaria Eradication Programme and recommended that the basic health workers doing malaria surveillance should also carry out family planning duties in the maintenance phase, so that one worker did more than one job. So B matches item 1, "Malaria workers to look after FP work also".

Step 4: Kartar Singh Committee (1973).
This committee recommended merging the various single purpose health workers (malaria, family planning, smallpox and so on) into one Multi-Purpose Worker (MPW), both male and female, at the sub centre level. So C matches item 4, "Led to creation of multipurpose worker".

Step 5: Jungalwalla Committee (1967).
This committee's main theme was the integration of health services, removing the divide between preventive and curative wings and creating a single unified cadre working from the state headquarters down to the periphery. So D matches item 2, "Integration of services from the highest to the lowest levels".

Step 6: Compare with the printed answer key.
The source paper marks the option A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3 as correct. That combination swaps the well known achievements of the Shrivastava and Jungalwalla committees. Based on standard public health teaching, A should be 3 and D should be 2, giving A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2. We are going with this well documented combination rather than the printed key, since the Health Guides scheme is specifically credited to Shrivastava and service integration is specifically credited to Jungalwalla in every standard community medicine text.

Step 7: Final Answer.
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