MINISTRY OF AYUSH

To provide cost effective AYUSH Services, with a universal access through upgrading AYUSH Hospitals and Dispensaries, co-location of AYUSH facilities at Primary Health Centres (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs) and District Hospitals (DHs)
To strengthen institutional capacity at the state level
Support cultivation of medicinal plants by adopting Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)
Support setting up of clusters through convergence of cultivation, warehousing, value addition and marketing and development of infrastructure for entrepreneurs.
Centrally Sponsored Scheme introduced in 2014 and has been extended further till 2020.
AYUSH systems of medicine, namely Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha & Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy.
Components of the Mission

✓ AYUSH Services (including co-location of AYUSH facilities at Primary Health Centres (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs) and District Hospitals(DH)
✓ AYUSH Educational Institution
✓ Quality Control of ASU &H Drugs, Medicinal Plants
✓ School Health Programme: to address both physical and mental health needs of School going children using Yoga and counselling

✓ AYUSH Wellness Centres including Yoga & Naturopathy
✓ IEC activities,
✓ Tele-medicine
✓ Crop Insurance for Medicinal Plants
✓ Public Private Partnership provision and Interest subsidy component for Private AYUSH educational Institutions.

• Monitoring and Evaluation - Dedicated MIS monitoring and evaluation cell would be established at Centre/ State level.
• AYUSH Gram: one village per block will be selected where AYUSH based lifestyles are promoted.
• It has been decided to operationalize 10% of the Health and Wellness Centers (HWCs) of the Ayushman Bharat Scheme through the Ministry of AYUSH through State / UT Governments.
• So, 1,032 AYUSH Dispensaries under NAM will be upgraded as AYUSH Health and Wellness Centres.
• Subsidy is being given to farmers for cultivation of medicinal plants.

To develop the culture of documenting adverse effects and undertake safety monitoring of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy drugs and surveillance of misleading advertisements appearing in the print and electronic media.
It is a Central Sector Scheme.
Three-tier network of National Pharmacovigilance Centre (NPvCC), Intermediary Pharmacovigilance Centres (IPvCCs) and Peripheral Pharmacovigilance Centres (PPvCC).
• All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi, an autonomous body under the Ministry of AYUSH, has been designated as NPvCC for coordinating various activities of the initiative.

• To provide cost-effective treatment and control of non-communicable disease of Diabetes.
• Launched in 2016, it will be implemented throughout the country through a specially designed National Treatment Protocol for effective management of Diabetes through Ayurveda.

• To promote health, health education in villages, awareness about cleanliness of domestic surroundings and environment.
• Mass campaigning through rallies, Nukkad Nataks focussing on personal, environmental and social hygiene are being undertaken for creating awareness about hygiene and health.

• Aim- to prevent bio-piracy by protecting misappropriation of Indian traditional medicinal knowledge at International Patent Offices and to classify this traditional knowledge as per international patent classification systems.
• It is a collaborative project of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Ministry of AYUSH.
• TKDL contains about 1250 formulations selected from various classical texts of Indian Systems of Medicine existing in local languages such as Sanskrit, Urdu, Tamil etc. They are converted into digitized searchable database in international languages like English.

• It has been launched for induction of IT into the AYUSH Sector for development of healthcare delivery at all levels, research, education, schemes and various health programs.
• Ministry has taken up various pilot projects like AYUSH Hospital Management Information System (A-HMIS), Yoga locator application, Telemedicine etc. which shall be merged into AYUSH Grid Project after completion of pilot period.

• SIHR has been drawn up in collaboration with NITI Aayog and Invest India (AGNI Platform).
• Aim- To address the untapped potential of integration of AYUSH Systems with modern medicine through evidence based integrative practices.

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