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INDORE: The Madhya Pradesh government and ministry of health and family welfare have finally signed an MoU to pave the way for establishing an office of State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization SOTTO ) in Indore. The office will carry out various activities related to organ donation under National Organ Transplant Programme (NOTP), which is a 100% centrally sponsored scheme. According to Shukla, Indore was given preference for the SOTTO office because it has performed well in the field of organ donation.The facility will be boost to ongoing activities, especially in spreading awareness. "We have signed an MoU with the central government, accepting the terms and conditions for establishing SOTTO's office in MGM Medical College of Indore ," medical education commissioner, Sheo Shekhar Shukla, told TOI on Friday. Once passed, advisory and authorization committees will be constituted to ensure implementation of the Act," commissioner Shukla said..