Under the ‘Healthy Body, Healthy Mind’ scheme, health check-up of students in ashrams and hostels will be conducted by private physicians now in the district.
Applications have already been invited from private physicians by June 14, for executing agreement for health check-up of students at the nine ashrams and hostels run by Tribal and Sche-duled Caste Development Department in Nagri.
According to information from the Office of the Assistant Commissioner Tribal Development, under the ‘Healthy Body, Healthy Mind’ scheme, agreement has to be executed with private doctors having minimum qualification of BAMS or MBBS, for regular health check-up of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe students residing in ashram, hostels located in far-flung areas.
Selected doctors have to submit application in prescribed form to the office of Assistant Commis-sioner, Tribal Development at the Collectorate by June 14 at 5.30 pm. For girls’ ashram and hostels, lady doctors will sign agreement. Doctors can apply for more than one ashram, hostel.
Selected doctors will be given honorarium at Rs 750 per visit for 50 seater ashrams, hostels and Rs 1,200 for 100 seater ashrams, hostels. They have to check the health of children mandatorily at the ashram-hostels concerned twice in a month with an interval of 15 days. They have been asked to do health examination of students on holidays, so that their studies might not been affected.
The selected doctors will examine the health of students at the allotted hostels and ashrams twice in a month from July 2014 to April 2015. The nine ashram-hostels of Nagri block are — Pre-metric Tribal Boys Hostel Siyarinala, Tangapani, Ghutkel, Tribal Girls Ashram Kaspur, Borai and Tribal Boys Ashram Bhainsamuda, Birnasilli, Kareha and Mechka.