Functions of the State Council

The State Council is responsible for ensuring the coordinated and integrated development of allied and healthcare education and for maintaining standards in professional practice across the State. Its key functions include:

Registration & Regulation

1. Maintain the State Register of recognised allied and healthcare professionals.
2. Enforce professional conduct, code of ethics, and etiquette.
3. Initiate disciplinary action, including removal from the State Register when required.

Standards of Education

1. Ensure minimum standards in education, curriculum, courses, infrastructure, faculty pattern, staff qualifications, teaching quality, assessment, examinations, training, research, and continuing professional education.
2. Provide a minimum standards framework for machinery, materials, and services.

Admissions & Examinations

1. Ensure uniform entry examination with common counselling for diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes.
2. Ensure uniform exit or licensing examination for allied and healthcare professionals.

Inspection & Compliance

1. Inspect allied and healthcare institutions.
2. Register qualified allied and healthcare professionals in the State.
3. Ensure compliance with directives issued by the Commission.

Approval & Recognition

1. Approve or recognise courses and determine intake capacity.
2. Impose fines on institutions to maintain prescribed standards.

Other Statutory Functions

1. Perform additional functions entrusted by the State Government for effective implementation of the Act.