Section 501(1) in The Orissa Municipal Corporation Act, 2003
(1)The Corporation shall build health management capacities to improve service delivery to the poor through participatory health delivery mechanism with emphasis on health education for STD or HIV prevention, as well as measures to combat alcoholism and violence and shall establish a network of community health workers or volunteers to facilities this process through health promotion activity and shall also establish formal partnerships with private medical practitioners to undertake the delivery of curative services in slums.