Mudaliar Committee – recommendations MCQs With Answer

Mudaliar Committee – recommendations MCQs With Answer

The Mudaliar Committee (Health Survey and Development Committee) reviewed India’s health services and made key recommendations affecting medical education, public health policy, and healthcare delivery. Its emphasis on strengthening curative services, hospital infrastructure, specialist training, and allied health personnel influenced the pharmacy and biomedical workforce. For B. Pharm students, understanding Mudaliar recommendations helps link pharmacy practice with primary, secondary, and tertiary care, workforce planning, and integration of preventive and curative services. Key keywords: Mudaliar Committee, recommendations, medical education, public health, primary health care, hospital services, pharmacy curriculum, allied health personnel. Now let’s test your knowledge with 30 MCQs on this topic.

Q1. Which area did the Mudaliar Committee emphasize more compared to the Bhore Committee?

• Preventive and social medicine
• Curative and hospital services
• Traditional medicine promotion
• Exclusive community-based care

Correct Answer: Curative and hospital services

Q2. The Mudaliar Committee is formally known as which committee?

• Bhore Health Committee
• Health Survey and Development Committee
• National Public Health Committee
• Medical Education Reform Committee

Correct Answer: Health Survey and Development Committee

Q3. Who chaired the Mudaliar Committee?

• Sir Joseph Bhore
• Dr. A. L. Mudaliar
• Dr. B.C. Roy
• Dr. Bidhan Chandra

Correct Answer: Dr. A. L. Mudaliar

Q4. One major recommendation of the Mudaliar Committee regarding hospitals was to:

• Close district hospitals and focus on dispensaries
• Strengthen secondary and tertiary hospital services
• Convert hospitals into only teaching institutes
• Limit specialist services to metropolitan areas

Correct Answer: Strengthen secondary and tertiary hospital services

Q5. The Mudaliar Committee recommended changes in medical education to increase focus on:

• Only traditional medicines
• Specialist and postgraduate training
• Eliminating clinical training
• Only primary prevention with no hospitals

Correct Answer: Specialist and postgraduate training

Q6. For allied health services the Mudaliar Committee stressed the need to:

• Reduce training of paramedical staff
• Expand training for nurses, midwives and paramedics
• Outsource all allied health to foreign agencies
• Abolish diploma courses

Correct Answer: Expand training for nurses, midwives and paramedics

Q7. Which sector did the Mudaliar Committee recognize as important for providing health services?

• Only government sector
• Only voluntary agencies
• Both public and private sectors
• Only international agencies

Correct Answer: Both public and private sectors

Q8. The Mudaliar Committee suggested district-level planning primarily to:

• Centralize all decisions in the capital
• Improve local health administration and match services to local needs
• Replace district hospitals with private clinics
• Reduce the role of local health officers

Correct Answer: Improve local health administration and match services to local needs

Q9. How did the Mudaliar Committee view preventive versus curative services?

• Preventive services were the only priority
• Curative services needed strengthening alongside preventive measures
• Preventive services should be abolished
• Curative care should be entirely privatized

Correct Answer: Curative services needed strengthening alongside preventive measures

Q10. Regarding public health manpower, Mudaliar Committee recommended:

• No change to existing workforce
• Better distribution and increased numbers of trained health workers
• Only hiring overseas professionals
• Reducing the number of nurses

Correct Answer: Better distribution and increased numbers of trained health workers

Q11. The committee recommended improving hospital statistics and health information primarily to:

• Limit research activities
• Guide planning, resource allocation and monitoring
• Replace clinical decision-making
• Privatize data services

Correct Answer: Guide planning, resource allocation and monitoring

Q12. Mudaliar Committee’s stance on maternal and child health was to:

• Ignore maternal and child services
• Integrate and strengthen MCH services within health system
• Provide MCH services only in private hospitals
• Focus MCH solely on urban centers

Correct Answer: Integrate and strengthen MCH services within health system

Q13. The Committee recommended that primary health centers should be:

• Closed down in favor of clinics
• Reoriented and supported but not be the only focus
• Replaced by tertiary hospitals
• Run exclusively by non-medical staff

Correct Answer: Reoriented and supported but not be the only focus

Q14. For pharmaceutical services, an implication of Mudaliar recommendations was:

• Ignoring drug supply and pharmacy training
• Strengthening drug supply chains and trained pharmacy personnel
• Outlawing local pharmaceutical production
• Only using imported medications

Correct Answer: Strengthening drug supply chains and trained pharmacy personnel

Q15. The Mudaliar Committee advised that hospitals should be linked with:

• Only commercial enterprises
• Medical colleges and teaching institutions for training and services
• Foreign hospitals exclusively
• Isolated standalone systems with no academic ties

Correct Answer: Medical colleges and teaching institutions for training and services

Q16. Which of the following best describes Mudaliar Committee’s approach to health planning?

• Highly centralized with no local input
• Evidence-based, with emphasis on data and district planning
• Opposed to any statistical monitoring
• Planning only at village level without higher coordination

Correct Answer: Evidence-based, with emphasis on data and district planning

Q17. The committee highlighted the need for improving which of these hospital functions?

• Only catering services
• Clinical services, diagnostics and specialist care
• Only administrative paperwork
• Elimination of outpatient services

Correct Answer: Clinical services, diagnostics and specialist care

Q18. An effect of the Mudaliar recommendations on pharmacy education was the emphasis to:

• Focus solely on herbal remedies
• Include hospital pharmacy, therapeutics and public health subjects
• Remove clinical pharmacology from curriculum
• Train pharmacists only for retail sales

Correct Answer: Include hospital pharmacy, therapeutics and public health subjects

Q19. The committee suggested greater support for which type of health facilities in rural areas?

• Large urban hospitals only
• Peripheral health units and improved rural centers
• Only mobile camps without fixed centers
• Private specialist clinics only

Correct Answer: Peripheral health units and improved rural centers

Q20. Which statement reflects Mudaliar Committee’s view on voluntary organizations?

• Voluntary organizations should be discouraged
• They should be encouraged to complement government services
• They should take over government healthcare entirely
• They should operate without any coordination

Correct Answer: They should be encouraged to complement government services

Q21. One workforce recommendation was to create more opportunities for:

• Laboratory automation with no human workers
• Training of middle-level health personnel and technologists
• Eliminating pharmacy technicians
• Exporting all trainees abroad

Correct Answer: Training of middle-level health personnel and technologists

Q22. Regarding fund allocation, the Mudaliar Committee urged:

• Reduced public spending on health
• Increased and better-targeted public investment in health services
• Only private funding of health without public funds
• Investment solely in urban luxury hospitals

Correct Answer: Increased and better-targeted public investment in health services

Q23. The Committee’s recommendations influenced which aspect of national health policy?

• Shift toward stronger hospital-based care and specialist services
• Complete dismantling of modern medicine
• Focus solely on traditional healers
• Stopping all medical education expansions

Correct Answer: Shift toward stronger hospital-based care and specialist services

Q24. For disease control programmes the Mudaliar Committee recommended:

• Ignoring national disease control efforts
• Strengthening surveillance, treatment and coordination
• Only relying on community myths for control
• Eliminating vaccination programmes

Correct Answer: Strengthening surveillance, treatment and coordination

Q25. How did Mudaliar Committee view the role of medical colleges?

• As isolated institutions with no community role
• As centers for teaching, patient care and community links
• Only as research centers with no clinical duties
• To be phased out in favor of private clinics

Correct Answer: As centers for teaching, patient care and community links

Q26. The Mudaliar Committee recommended improvement in which support service important to pharmacists?

• Health insurance claims processing only
• Drug procurement, storage and supply management
• Elimination of pharmacovigilance
• Replacing pharmacists with vending machines

Correct Answer: Drug procurement, storage and supply management

Q27. In comparing Bhore and Mudaliar Committees, Mudaliar is best described as:

• More oriented toward hospital and specialist care than Bhore
• Completely identical to Bhore in all recommendations
• Opposed to any form of modern medicine
• Focusing only on veterinary health

Correct Answer: More oriented toward hospital and specialist care than Bhore

Q28. The Committee recommended which approach for dealing with urban health problems?

• Ignore urban health and focus only on rural
• Establish urban health services, municipal hospitals and targeted programmes
• Move urban populations to rural areas
• Provide no specialized urban services

Correct Answer: Establish urban health services, municipal hospitals and targeted programmes

Q29. For implementing recommendations, the Mudaliar Committee stressed:

• Rapid, unplanned expansion without evaluation
• Phased implementation with monitoring and evaluation
• Abolition of monitoring mechanisms
• Immediate privatization of all services

Correct Answer: Phased implementation with monitoring and evaluation

Q30. Why is it important for B. Pharm students to study Mudaliar Committee recommendations?

• They have no relevance to pharmacy practice
• They link health policy, hospital pharmacy, drug supply and workforce planning to practice
• They only concern veterinary pharmaceuticals
• They are purely historical with no practical implications

Correct Answer: They link health policy, hospital pharmacy, drug supply and workforce planning to practice

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