CM Ashok Gehlot seeks special status for Rajasthan under AYUSH mission

JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give

special status

to the state under the National AYUSH Mission as it has the “largest” infrastructure in the country with over 5,000 AYUSH medical centres in operation.

Gehlot said, “Giving special status to Rajasthan under the National AYUSH Mission would help the state to take forward the mission of deemed university status to the National Institute of Ayurveda (NIA), Jaipur as it has the largest AYUSH basic infrastructure in the country.”

Gehlot was speaking on the Ayurveda Day on Friday in a virtual event where Modi dedicated the Institute of Teaching & Research in Ayurveda (ITRA), Jamnagar and the National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur.

The ITRA has been conferred the status of an

Institution of National Importance

(INI) by an Act of the Parliament and the NIA that of an institution deemed to be university by

the University Grants Commission

.

The chief minister said deemed university status will boost research and international scope of Ayurvedic, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and

Homeopathy

(AYUSH).

Gehlot also suggested amendment to the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940, making it compulsory for Ayurvedic drugs stores to have pharmacists, and demanded establishment of a central AYUSH Nursing Commission, development of nadi science, setting up of a central council for yoga and naturopathy and setting up of ayurvedic hospitals as wellness centres.


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