RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005

17 items(manuals) prescribed in clause (b) sub-section 1 of Section 4 which every public authority is required to publish within one hundred and twenty days from the enactment of this Act.

1. Particulars of Ministry of Health & Family Walfare's organisation, functions and duties

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare comprises the following departments:

  1. Department of Health and Family Welfare, and

  2. Department of AYUSH

  3. Department of Health Research

  4. Department of AIDS Control

 

The Department of Health & Family Welfare deals with medical and public health matters including drug control and prevention of food adulteration as well as Family Welfare programmes aimed at population stabilization consistent with the requirements of economic growth, social development and environmental protection.

Click here for a Who’s Who in the Department.

2. Powers and duties of officers and employees
3. Procedure followed in the decision making process including channels of supervision and accountability

Transaction of work at different levels is carried on in the Department in accordance with the Transaction of Business Rules and other Govt orders/instructions issued from time to time.

4. Norms set by Ministry for the discharge of its functions
5. The rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records, held by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare or under its control or used by its employees for discharging its functions
The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare follows Department of Personnel & Training’s Manual of Office Procedure, rules/regulations/instructions issued by the Ministry of Finance, Department of Public Enterprises, etc. 
6. Statement of the categories of documents that are held by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare or under its control
The documents held by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare are: Annual Report, Performance Budget and Detailed Demands for Grants of the Ministry.
7. The particulars of any arrangement that exits for consultation with or representation by the members of the public in relation to the formulation of its policy or implementation thereof

There is a Central Council of Health & Family Welfare under the chairmanship of the Minister for health & FW comprising the Health Ministers of State Governments/UTs, MPs, non-officials representing health organizations and public bodies and certain eminent individuals. It is the apex policy formulating body in the field of health and family welfare in all its aspects for recommending broad lines of policy to the Centre and the States.

8. Boards, councils, committees and other bodies consisting of two or more persons constituted as its part or for the purpose of its advice, and as to whether meeting of those boards, councils, committees and other bodies are open to the public, or the minutes of such meetings are accessible for public
9. Directory of the Ministry's Officers and employees
10. Monthly remuneration received by each of officers and employees
11. The budget allocated to the Ministry, plans, expenditures, disbursements made etc.

  

    12.
    Execution of subsidy programmes, including the
      amounts allocated  and details of beneficiaries of such programmes 
      

  

    13.
    Particulars of 
      recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by the 
      Ministry

  

    
    

  

    14.
    
    Information held by the Ministry 
      in the electronic form

      
      

  

    
    Annual Report; Performance 
      Budget; and Detailed Demands 
      for Grants of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare;   

  

    15.
    Particulars of 
      facilities available to citizens for obtaining information including the 
      working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public 
      use
Facilitation Centre counter of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
      is near 
      Gate No.5, Nirman Bhawan, Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi. The working hour is 
      10.00 AM to 5 PM.  

  

    16.
    The names, designations and 
      other particulars of the Public Information Officers

  

    17.
    Such other information as may be 
prescribed