Government has created & proposes following educational opportunities in the AYUSH sector: 

1. All India Institute of Ayurveda at Goa is being established as satellite centre of the existing All India Institute of Ayurveda, New
2. National Institute of Ayurveda at Panchkula is being established as satellite centre of the existing National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur.
3. National Institute of Homoeopathy at Narela, New Delhi is being established as satellite centre of the existing National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata.
4. National Institute of Unani Medicine at Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh is being established as satellite centre of the existing National Institute of Unani Medicine,
5.               Post Graduate Institute of Yoga and Naturopathy Education & Research at Nagamangla, Karnataka will be an institute of the Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy (CCRYN), New Delhi an Autonomous Body under Ministry of AYUSH.

6. Rastriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth, an autonomous organization under M/o AYUSH is starting fellowship programme as Super Speciality Courses in Ayurveda in collaboration with ITRA Jamnagar AIIA Delhi, and NIA Jaipur The following subjects have been identified for the course: 1. Skin Diseases 2. Oncology 3. Emergency Medicine 4. Surgery (Bhagna) 5. De-Addiction 6. Neurology.

 

The following steps have been taken by the Government to promote AYUSH medicines in the country:

• To promote AYUSH Medicine amongst people within and outside the country, various IEC activities are being taken up with adequate dissemination of information through electronic, press and social media.
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• Considering the importance of immunity boosting measures in the wake of COVID-19 outbreak, Ministry of AYUSH has promoted use of ready-made Ayush formulation i.e., ‘Ayush Kwath’(Ayurveda) or ‘Ayush Kudineer’ (Siddha) or ‘Ayush Joshanda’ (Unani) in the interest of health promotion to the masses.
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• Interdisciplinary AYUSH Research & Development task Force has been constituted, which is carrying out the activities related to scientific validation of work of AYUSH Medicines on fast track.
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• To streamline/facilitate research of AYUSH medicines, total 05 Research Councils dedicated to different AYUSH systems or healthcare are functioning under Ministry of AYUSH. CCRH under the villages Swasthya Rakshan program has adopted 55 villages, where local populations are being provided health care at their door step.

 

STATE/UT-WISE NUMBER OF AYUSHCOLLEGES IN THE COUNTRY

State	Ayurveda	Unani	Siddha	Sowa Rigpa	Homeopathy	Total Colleges
Andhra Pradesh	03	01	00	00	07	11
Arunachal Pradesh	00	00	00	00	01	01
Assam	01	00	00	00	03	04
Bihar	08	05	00	00	15	28
Chandigarh	01	00	00	00	01	02
Chhattisgarh	06	01	00	00	03	10
Delhi	03	02	00	00	02	07
Goa	01	00	00	00	01	02
Gujarat	34	00	00	00	35	69
Haryana	11	00	00	00	01	12
Himachal Pradesh	03	00	00	00	01	04
Jammu & Kashmir	02	03	00	01	00	06
Jharkhand	01	00	00	00	05	06
Karnataka	78	06	00	00	18	102
Kerala	18	01	01	00	06	26
Madhya Pradesh	24	04	00	00	25	53
Maharashtra	82	07	00	00	58	147
Meghalaya	01	00	00	00	01	02
Odisha	06	00	00	00	06	12
Puducherry	01	00	00	00	00	01
Punjab	17	01	00	00	04	22
Rajasthan	13	03	00	00	10	26
Sikkim	00	00	00	01	00	01
Tamil Nadu	07	01	12	00	13	33
Telangana	05	03	00	00	05	13
Uttar Pradesh	69	16	00	01	13	99
Uttrakhand	16	01	00	00	02	19
West Bengal	04	01	00	00	12	17
Total	415	56	13	3	248	735

 

The Minister of State (The Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy), Sh. Kiren Rijiju (Additional Charge) stated this in a written reply in the Lok Sabha here today.

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