Steps Taken for Development of AYUSH Systems: Minister apprises parliament

New Delhi: There are 7,73,668 AYUSH practitioners registered in India as on 01.01.2017, the AYUSH Minister Shri Sripad Naik recently informed the parliament.

The minister was responding to a question raised by Lok Sabha Member Shri Hari Manjhi, asking about the number and breakup of AYUSH practitioners practising in the country and highlighting the steps taken by the Ministry for the promotion of AYUSH systems.

The government of India has adopted a strategy of Co-location of AYUSH facilities at Primary Health Centres (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs) and District Hospitals (DHs), thus enabling choice to the patients for different systems of medicines under single window. The engagement of AYUSH Doctors/paramedics and their training is supported by the Department of Health & Family Welfare, while the support for AYUSH infrastructure, equipment/furniture and medicines are provided by Ministry of AYUSH under National AYUSH Mission (NAM).

The government has taken following steps to popularise the AYUSH system in the urban and rural areas:

1. The State / UT Governments are provided Grant-in-aid for procurement of essential AYUSH medicines for AYUSH Hospitals & Dispensaries, AYUSH Co-located facilities at Primary Health Centres (PHC), Community Health Centres (CHC) and District Hospital (DH) under National AYUSH Mission (NAM).


2. Further, provision has also been made for following activities under NAM:

i) Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) has been included as a strategy of Mass Media Communication incorporating AYUSH strengths in early prevention of diseases through promotion of healthy diet and life style to be adopted by the community which will be advocated by the states.

ii) Public Health Outreach activity has been included to focus on increasing awareness about AYUSH’s strength in solving community health problems resulting from nutritional deficiencies, epidemics and vector-borne diseases, Maternal and Child Health Care.

iii) AYUSH Gram is a concept wherein one village per block is selected for adoption of method and practice of AYUSH way of life and interventions of health care. In AYUSH village AYUSH based lifestyles are promoted through behavioural change communication, training of village health workers towards identification and use of local medicinal herbs and provision of AYUSH health services.

3. The Ministry takes up initiatives for propagation and promotion of AYUSH systems of medicine including Ayurveda by organizing Arogya fairs/ Melas, Conferences, Exhibitions, Seminar, Workshops, Symposium and also undertaking publicity through electronic multimedia, print media campaigning for awareness amongst the citizens all over the country.


4. Celebration of International day of Yoga by organizing one month Yoga Training Programme in all districts of India.

State wise AYUSH Registered Practitioners (Doctors) as on 1-1-2017

S.No.	States/Uts	Ayurveda	Unani	Siddha	Naturopathy	Homoeopathy	Total
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	Andhra Pradesh	15921	702	0	123	5247	21993
2	Arunachal Pradesh	44	2	0	0	293	339
3	Assam	1002	0	0	0	1160	2162
4	Bihar	96841	7123	0	0	31992	135956
5	Chhattisgarh	3430	148	0	102	1824	5504
6	Delhi	3421	2011	0	0	4827	10259
7	Goa	636	0	0	0	671	1307
8	Gujarat	26311	321	0	0	21455	48087
9	Haryana	8351	268	0	0	5605	14224
10	Himachal Pradesh	4975	0	0	0	1233	6208
11	Jammu & Kashmir	2937	2498	0	0	388	5823
12	Jharkhand	147	30	0	0	285	462
13	Karnataka	33869	1948	4	745	9102	45668
14	Kerala	24076	108	1657	147	13156	39144
15	Madhya Pradesh	46486	1685	0	15	16711	64897
16	Maharashtra	76465	6833	0	0	64538	147836
17	Manipur	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	Meghalaya	0	0	0	0	334	334
19	Mizoram	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Nagaland	0	0	0	0	2084	2084
21	Odisha	4846	25	0	0	9645	14516
22	Punjab	11135	211	0	0	4411	15757
23	Rajasthan	9762	983	0	8	7810	18563
24	Sikkim	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	Tamil Nadu	4357	1182	6844	788	5075	18246
26	Telangana	10937	4764	0	314	4809	20824
27	Tripura	0	0	0	0	331	331
28	Uttar Pradesh	36626	13423	0	0	33425	83474
29	Uttarakhand	2806	129	0	0	726	3661
30	West Bengal	3503	5172	0	0	37178	45853
31	A&N Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	Chandigarh	0	0	0	0	156	156
33	D&N Haveli	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	Daman&Diu	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	Lakshdweep	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	Puducherry	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTAL	428884	49566	8505	2242	284471	773668

Source: State Boards/Councils