Telemedicine is becoming more familiar concept and provide a boom for Indian health care sector. It has the ability to fill the gap between demand of healthcare services and supply of limited manpower and infrastructure in healthcare, especially for people residing in remote and rural areas. Punjab state is geographically and economically diversified. The state already has been passing through various problems such as rapidly increasing population, lack of sufficient transportation, illiteracy

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... nd low budget for healthcare. In such a scenario, the telemedicine has emerged as a life line to serve the people at large. The features like easy accessibility and highly economical are bagged into the merit list of telemedicine services. The present study aimed to access various government initiatives taken under telemedicine in Punjab and also to address the issues in implementation of telemedicine. The study has used both primary as well as secondary data to study the problem and to understand view point of telemedicine service providers. The survey was conducted at different telemedicine centres. The study reveals that telemedicine services have not shown remarkable achievements in Punjab, however most of the telemedicine centres are still working hard to survive. The study explores various problems in detail that are required to be overcome to bring the telemedicine at the expected level.