The committee consisted of pioneers in the healthcare field who met frequently for two years and submitted their report in 1946.
It laid out the proposal for a national program of health services in India and also stressed the importance of preventive care in Subject to curative treatment.
[1] It said, "If it was possible to the 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.
[citation needed] The committee was instrumental in bringing about the public health reforms related to peripheral health centres in India.
Primary Health Centres were built across the nation to provide integrated promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services to entire urban as well as rural population, as an integral component of wider community development programme.