Bhore committee

Bhore committee set up by the government of India in 1943 to investigate and recommend improvements to the Indian Public Health system. Under the chairmanship of Sir Joseph Bhore the committee made many landmark recommendations in its final report in 1946.

It said "If it were possible to evaluate the loss, which this country annually suffers through the avoidable waste of valuable human material and the lowering of human efficiency through malnutrition and preventable morbidity, we feel that the result would be so startling that the whole country would be aroused and would not rest until a radical change had been brought about"

The committee was instrumental in bringing about the public health reforms related to peripheral health centres in India.

Though most of the recommendations of the committee were not implemented at the time, the committee was a trigger to the reforms that followed.