The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has objected to the fact that the proposed regulator in the bill neither provides any representation to state governments despite health being a state subject nor does it provide for elections to appoint members of the regulator.
The Committee has also asked the Health Ministry to include medical research (currently covered by Higher Education and Research Bill 2011 of the HRD Ministry) under the proposed medical regulator.
"The Bill cannot be recommended in the present form. We recommend to the Ministry to withdraw the Bill and bring forward a fresh bill after sufficiently addressing all the views and concerns expressed by stakeholders," the panel said in its report on the 'National Commission for Human Resources for Health Bill 2011' (NCHRH Bill).
The NCHRH Bill, introduced in Rajya Sabha on December 22 last year, was forwarded to the panel for consideration.
The Bill rejected by the Committee seeks to dissolve the four existing health regulators
