STDC Administration

The STDC as an institution will function with the State TB Cell (STC). It will manage any RTPMCs in the state.

STDC will need to be empowered with adequate autonomy to conduct planned activities. The STDC will annually prepare an action plan prior to the State PIP process. The action plan has to include all training, SM&E, and Technical activities for the next one year. The general norms for the quantity of each activities may be referred from the relevant functional sections provided subsequently. The action plan will also have to include the relevant budget and will have to be incorporated into the State PIP. Care has to be taken to ensure that the activities and budget will have to include necessary travel within the state and country for executing all its functions. The STDC staff may travel by hiring vehicles, through air/ rail/ ferry as appropriate, following the state NHM norms.

Once the PIP is approved the total annual budget approved for the STDC activities may be transferred to the STDC, to be used by the STDC director only for approved activities under the PIP.

Any IRL attached to the STDC may also be managed by the STDC. In such cases the IRL-Microbiologist who is in-charge of the IRL, will report to the STDC Director.