Diploma Sanitary inspector

Overview

Diploma Sanitary inspector course is also known as S.I course. The main objective of this course is to obtain technicalities that supplemented by both practical and theoretic knowledge for students who aspire to join the health and sanitation department of district councils, municipal bodies, five-star hotels, railways, government organizations, schools, food and drug administrations, airports etc.

Completion of this course will give the students a job where they get to apply the knowledge to deal with health and sanitation issues. This also includes family welfare, preventive health care and environmental conditions. The Sanitary inspector’s diploma course is for one year long and the admissions take place twice a year, once in the month of June or July and once again in the month of January or February.

Eligibility Criteria

  1. Students must have finished their 12th standard exam from any stream.
  2. Students must have finished a two-year technical course after passing their tenth standard.
  3. Students must have completed a diploma in engineering.
  4. Students must have finished an MPHW course from any state government.

Entrance Exam

  1. All India Institute of Local – Self Government, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
  2. All India Institute of Local – Self Government, Aurangabad, Maharashtra
  3. All India Institute of Local – Self Government, Bangalore, Karnataka
  4. All India Institute of Local – Self Government, Belgaum, Karnataka

Syllabus

  1. Basic Human sciences
  2. Communicative English
  3. Computer application
  4. Elementary physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (that are applied to public health)
  5. First aid
  6. First aid
  7. Elementary entomology
  8. Elements of Social sciences, Behavioural Science
  9. Personal Hygiene
  10. Elementary Pharmacology
  11. Drugs used in preventive medicine and
  12. Public health and practice
  13. Minor elements and their treatment
  14. Chemical agents used in public Health
  15. Non-communicable diseases
  16. Important communicable diseases and their control
  17. Health education
  18. School health
  19. Maternal and child health
  20. Family planning
  21. Vital statistics
  22. Registration of Birth and death act
  23. Disposal of death
  24. Nutrition
  25. Food sanitation and food chemistry
  26. The prevention of food adulteration
  27. The provision in municipal act pertaining to public health
  28. Public health chemistry
  29. Food establishment markers and slaughterhouses.
  30. Industrial health
  31. Factories, trades and hygiene and offensive trade
  32. Public health administration, national and international health agencies
  33. Bookkeeping
  34. Water supply and quality control
  35. Waste and its disposal including the disposal of refuse and household and trade refuse.
  36. Excrete disposal
  37. Air and ventilation
  38. Engineering methods in relation to disease control
  39. Environmental pollution
  40. Sanitation of Fairs, festivals and camps.
  41. Inspection of trade premises
  42. Administration and management
Career and Scope
  1. Medical Assistants
  2. Laboratory Assistants
  3. Health Worker
  4. Field Assistant
  5. Health Inspector
  6. Food Inspector
  7. Sanitation Inspector