The state government of Odisha framed plans to provide incentives for doctors to make them work in rural areas, which lack adequate healthcare services.

G.C. Pati, Chief secretary said that the incentives are determined on available objective parameters and ground realities such as backwardness of locality, tribal dominance, left-wing extremism, transport facilities and social infrastructure.
The state government had earlier devised incentives like higher salaries and preferential admission to post-graduate courses but medical officers did not stay in the rural areas, affecting health services there.
Source-Medindia