ABSTRACT
The Department continues to lay emphasis on upgradation of Ayush educational standards, quality control and standardization of drugs, improving the availability of medicinal plant material, research and development and awareness generation about the efficacy and safety of the systems domestically and internationally. The Policy reveals that although vast infrastructure is available in the Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy for addressing health care of our people, they are underutilized. The factual position of system of Schedule in AYUSH qualifications is in fact confusing. If improvement of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) education mandate of the National AYUSH Mission has to be achieved, we need to address human resource issues in AYUSH sector. As a result of the Pandit Committee's report, the Central Research Institute in indigenous systems of medicine was created in Jamnagar in 1952. National Policy on AYUSH followed by National AYUSH Mission are welcome steps for promoting Ayush.
