School Health Programme was launched in many parts of the world with the aim of providing promotion, prevention, early diagnosis of diseases and awareness among school children. Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK) was launched under NRHM in India to address the four ‘D’ s-Diseases, Deficiencies, Defects at Birth and Developmental Delays including Disabilities and Reproductive, Maternal, New-born, Child Health and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) (GOI, 2013). Dental caries is one of the disease components among thirty diseases condition under RBSK. This paper tries to bring out the status of School Dental Health Services in the structure of School Health Services. This study uses the concept of ‘power and authority’ dental health services has in the given structure of School Health Services. This paper also tries to focus on the functioning of school dental health and constraints faced during the implementation of the programme. The study was qualitative in nature and done in the rural and difficult to reach areas of West Tripura District of Tripura.
RBSK, NRHM, School health programme, Dental health service, School health service
