Ayurvedic, Unani and homeopathic education may face a setback in the session 2013-14

Updated on: Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Ayurvedic, Unani and homeopathic education may face a setback in the session 2013-14 due to the pending decision of ministry of health and family welfare and department of AYUSH regarding grant/denial of permission to start the new academic session. The government is waiting for the report of Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) and Central Council of Homeopathy (CCH) for the status of colleges which are allegedly not following proper minimum standard required (MSR) regulations as per the guidelines proposed by government.

The department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) is part of the Union ministry of health and family welfare. The Ayurvedic, Unani and homeopathic medical colleges governed by AYUSH are run under Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) and Central Council of Homeopathy (CCH).

Union ministry of health and family welfare, in its letter number R.11011/10/2013-EEP (IM-I), ordered CCIM to conduct a survey of all the medical colleges offering BAMS, BUMS and Siddha courses to verify academic status. The ministry also briefed the norms which must be fulfilled by every college for getting an approval to start the academic session.

The government also gave deadline of July 31 to the CCIM to complete the verification process and submit the report to the department.

This is the reason why the state governments are ordered not to include all the Ayurvedic, homeopathic and Unani colleges in the UP-CPMT counselling.

The department of Ayush would grant admission in these colleges for the session 2013 after getting reports from CCIM regarding status and education. According to sources, CCIM authorities are yet to inspect many of the colleges in the state.

"It may take more than two months to get the Centre's nod," said an official of medical education department.

With this, more than a dozen Ayurvedic, Unani and homeopathy colleges would have to wait for around two months to start the academic session. And if AYUSH department would not approve admission in these colleges, the students would be the worst sufferers. They would lose the opportunity of admissions in current academic session.

"The counselling and admission into BAMS, BUMS and BHMS would be held only after the government accords permission to conduct fresh admissions. The counselling would not be held in the first phase as the government had approved the updated schedule, in which only MBBS and BDS courses have been included in the ongoing UP-CPMT counselling," counselling coordinator of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVM) RP Sharma said.

The state has seven homeopathic medical colleges which offer around 250 seats for the BHMS courses. National Homeopathic Medical College (Lucknow) offer 50 seats for BHMS course. Lal Bahadur Shastri Medical College (Allahabad) and Kanpur Homeopathic Medical College also have 50 seats each. Ghazipur Homeopathic Medical College also has 50 seats.

Doctor Brij Kishore Homeopathic Medical College (Faizabad) and Shree Durgaji Homeopathic Medical College (Ajgain) have 30 seats each for BHMS course. KGK Homeopathic Medical College (Moradabad) has 40 seats.

The total number of Ayurvedic medical colleges in the state are eight. Rajkiya Ayurvedic College (Lucknow), Lalit Hari Ayurvedic Collge (Pilibheet), Ayurvedic Medical College Attarra (Banda) and Bundelkhand Ayurvedic Medical College offers BAMS courses.

Bareilly Ayurvedic Medical College, Swami Kalyan Dev Rajkiya Ayurvedic Medical College Pampur (Muzaffarnagar), Lal Bahadur Shastri Ayurvedic Medical College (Allahabad) and Rajkiya Ayurvedic Medical College (Varanasi) are also an option for BAMS course.

The colleges offering BUMS are Unani Medical College (Allahabad) and Takmil-Uttib Unani Medical College (Lucknow), both offers 40 seats for the course.

Ayurvedic, Unani and homeopathic education may face a setback in the session 2013-14

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