Question : Improvement in Ayush Infrastructure

(a) whether the Government has taken/proposed to take any steps to improve the infrastructure and increase the accessibility of Ayush services in Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) the initiatives taken to promote the development of Ayurveda, Unani, Naturopathy, Herbal Medicines and Ayush industry in Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Parliamentary Constituency of Amravati under the National Ayush Mission during the last three years; and

(d) the funds spent by the Government under this head during the last three years thereof?

THE MINISTER OF AYUSH
(SHRI SARBANANDA SONOWAL)

(a) to (d) Public Health being a State subject, the primary responsibility to improve the infrastructure and increase access to AYUSH services in Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmirlies with the respective State/UT Governments. However, the Government of India has launched a Centrally Sponsored Scheme of National AYUSH Mission (NAM) implementing through States/UTs including Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir for the overall development of AYUSH systems which also includes infrastructural development and access to AYUSH Services. National AYUSH Mission inter-alia makes provisions for the following: -
(i) AYUSH Health & Wellness Centres
(ii) Co-location of AYUSH facilities at Primary Health Centres (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs) and District Hospitals (DHs)
(iii) Upgradation of existing standalone Government AYUSH Hospitals
(iv) Upgradation of existing Government/Panchayat/Government aided AYUSH Dispensaries/Construction of building for existing AYUSH Dispensary (Rented/dilapidated accommodation)/Construction of building to establish new AYUSH Dispensary
(v) Setting up of upto50/30/10 bedded integrated AYUSH Hospitals
(vi) Supply of essential drugs to Government AYUSH Hospitals, Government Dispensaries and Government/Government aided Teaching Institutional AYUSH Hospitals
(vii) AYUSH Public Health Programmes
(viii) Infrastructural development of AYUSH Under-Graduate Institutions andAYUSH Post-Graduate Institutions
(ix) Establishment of new AYUSH Colleges in the States where availability of AYUSH teaching institutions is inadequate in the Government Sector.

As per the resource pool/budgetary allocation made to State/UT Government of Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmirand proposals received from them through State Annual Action Plans (SAAPs) under NAM, the status of grant-in-aid released during the last three years from 2019-20 to 2021-22 is furnished at Annexure-I.Further, the details of fund approved for major activities of NAM including infrastructural development and access to AYUSH services in Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir under the National AYUSH Mission is furnished inAnnexure-II.As far as AmravatiDistrict is concerned, under NAM, 24 AYUSH Health & Wellness Centres have been approved.