Lok Sabha Question No. 3745 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-03-25
Subject: Usage of Ayurvedic Medicines
Ministry: AYURVEDA,YOGA & NATUROPATHY,UNANI,SIDDHA AND HOMEOPATHY (AYUSH)
Asked by: Bheemrao Baswanthrao Patil, Sudarshan Bhagat

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AYUSH

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-3745 TO BE ANSWERED ON 25/03/2022

## USAGE OF AYURVEDIC MEDICINES

## 3745. SHRI B.B.PATIL: SHRI SUDARSHAN BHAGAT

Will the Minister of AYUSH be pleased to state:

a)  whether the usage of Ayurvedic medicines have increased globally as well as domestically during the last five years;

(b) if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise;

(c) whether  the  Government  has  conducted  any  research  in  this  regard  and  if  so,  the  details thereof;

(d) whether the Government is making efforts to promote Ayurvedic medicines globally and if so, the details and the outcome thereof; and

(e) the number of Ayurvedic and Naturopathy Centres opened across the country during the last five years, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF AYUSH (SHRI SARBANANDA SONOWAL)

(a),  (b)  &  (c)  Yes.  The  Ministry  of  Ayush  has  established  the  Forum  on  Indian  Traditional Medicine  (FITM)  under  Research  and  Information  system  for  developing  country  (RIS)  an autonomous policy  research  institute  at  New  Delhi,  for  strengthening    academic    cooperation and collaboration to undertake research, policy dialogue, and publications for national,  regional and  international  fora  and  capacity  building  in  the field of Indian Traditional Medicines. In October,  2021,  a  research  report  on  AYUSH  Sector  has  been  published  by  Forum  on  Indian Traditional  Medicine  (FITM)  and  as  per  the  report,  the  current  turnover  of  Indian  AYUSH industry  is  US$  18.1  billion  and  the  market  size  of  Indian  AYUSH  industry  as  a  whole,  has grown by 17 per cent during 2014-2020. The total AYUSH & herbal medicines export of India has increased from US$ 1.09 billion in 2014 to US$ 1.54 billion in 2020, registering a robust growth rate of 5.9 per cent annually.  The details of India's state-wise export of AYUSH and Herbal Products during FY 2016-17 to FY 2021-22(up to Jan, 2022) are attached at Annexure-A.

(d) Yes. The Ministry has developed a Central Sector Scheme for Promotion of International Cooperation in AYUSH (IC Scheme) under which Ministry of Ayush provides support to Indian Ayush Manufacturers/ Ayush Service providers to give boost to export of AYUSH products & services;  facilitate International promotion, development and recognition of AYUSH system of medicine; foster interaction of stakeholders and market development of AYUSH at international level;  promote academics and research through establishment of AYUSH Academic Chairs in foreign countries and holding training workshop/symposiums for promoting and strengthening awareness and interest about AYUSH Systems of Medicine at international level.

Ministry of Ayush has taken following steps towards promotion of Ayurvedic medicines globally:

-  Ministry  has  signed  25  Country  to  Country  MoUs  for  Cooperation  in  field  of Traditional Medicine and Homoeopathy with foreign nations.
-  32 MoUs have been signed with international institutes for undertaking Collaborative Research / Academic collaboration.
-  14  MoUs  have  been  signed  with  international  institutes  for  setting  up  of  AYUSH Academic Chairs in foreign nations.
-  Ministry  of  Ayush  has  provided  support  for  establishment  of  38  Ayush  Information Cells in 34 foreign nations.
-  The 'AYUSH Export Promotion Council' has been registered under section 8(4) of the Companies  Act  2013  on  04.01.2022  under  the  Ministry  of  Ayush  in  support  of  the Ministry  of  Corporate  Affairs  to  tackle  the  obstacles  for  registration  of  AYUSH products abroad, undertaking of market studies and research activities abroad
-  Ministry  of  Ayush  under  its  International  Fellowship/Scholarship  Programme  offers scholarships to foreign nationals for undertaking AYUSH  courses in premier institutions in India.
-  MoUs  have  been  signed  with  London  School  of  Hygiene  &  Tropical  Medicine (LSH&TM),  UK  and  Frankfurter  Innovationszentrum  Biotechnologie  GmbH  (FIZ), Frankfurt  Germany  for  clinical  research  studies  on  mitigation  of  Covid-19  through Ayurveda.
-  Ministry  of  Ayush  issued  advisories  on  protecting  people  from  COVID  and  staying healthy in English as well as in 08 other foreign languages.
-  Ministry  of  Ayush  provides  AYUSH  Educational  Training  to  regulators  of  foreign nations.
-  Ministry  of  Ayush  in  cooperation  with  QCI  has  got  developed  Quality  Certification programme viz. Ayush mark and Premium mark to increase reliability of standards of ASU&H Products.
-  Ministry  of  Commerce  through  the  MAI  scheme  supported  AYUSH  industry  to participate  in  prominent  trade  fairs,  business  delegations  and  also  to  reimburse  the natural product certifications like Halal, Kosher, Non-GMO certification, USP NF food certification etc.
-  WHO-GMP (COPP) has been given to 31 Ayurvedic Drug manufacturers to facilitate the export of Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani & Homoeopathy Drugs.

(e) Under the Centrally Sponsored Scheme of National AYUSH Mission (NAM), there is provision  of  providing  support  to  State/UT  Governments  for  setting  up  of  up  to  50  /30  /10

bedded  integrated  AYUSH  Hospitals  including  Ayurvedic  and  Naturopathy  systems.  The State/UT  wise  list  of  approved  upto  50-  Bedded  Integrated  AYUSH  Hospitals  under  NAM Scheme, is attached at Annexure-B.

The  State/UT-wise  list  of  Ayurvedic  colleges/Institutes  opened  across  country  during  the  last five year is attached at Annexure-C.

Further,  05  Naturopathy  Institutes/Centres  have  been  established  during  the  last  05  years  at Jhajjar  (Haryana),  Nagamangla  (Karnataka),  AIIMS  Raipur  (Chhattigarh),  AIIMS  Rishikesh (Uttarakhand) and PGI Chandigarh.

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Annexure-A

## Values are in Million USD

| COMMODITY                 | STATE               | 2016- 17   | 2017- 18   | 2018- 19   | 2019- 20   | 2020- 21   | *2021- 22 up to Jan'22   |
|---------------------------|---------------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|------------|--------------------------|
| AYUSH AND HERBAL PRODUCTS | ANDAMAN& NICOBAR    | -          | 0.03       | -          | -          | -          | -                        |
|                           | ANDHRA PRADESH      | 0.27       | 0.18       | 0.27       | 0.10       | 0.26       | 0.26                     |
|                           | ASSAM               | 1.02       | 1.44       | 1.60       | 1.70       | 1.55       | 1.17                     |
|                           | BIHAR               | 0.30       | 1.51       | 1.15       | 0.29       | 0.08       | 0.25                     |
|                           | CHANDIGARH          | 0.05       | 0.14       | 0.10       | 0.09       | 0.12       | 0.01                     |
|                           | CHATTISGARH         | 1.15       | 1.65       | 1.03       | 0.80       | 2.01       | 4.38                     |
|                           | DADRA &NAGAR HAVELI | 0.28       | 0.36       | 0.27       | 0.37       | 0.59       | 1.33                     |
|                           | DAMAN &DIU          | 5.08       | 4.85       | 6.08       | 4.56       | 6.31       | 3.97                     |
|                           | DELHI               | 12.91      | 11.21      | 13.33      | 15.46      | 17.67      | 14.17                    |
|                           | GOA                 | 2.03       | 1.16       | 1.06       | 2.61       | 1.12       | 0.43                     |
|                           | GUJARAT             | 208.02     | 219.98     | 185.34     | 186.59     | 246.78     | 229.55                   |
|                           | HARYANA             | 1.76       | 3.93       | 7.27       | 3.18       | 7.47       | 9.69                     |
|                           | HIMACHAL PRADESH    | 7.54       | 9.55       | 9.57       | 5.97       | 4.61       | 7.74                     |
|                           | JAMMU & KASHMIR     | 0.14       | 0.60       | 0.72       | 0.09       | 0.03       | 0.46                     |
|                           | JHARKHAND           |            | 0.14       | 0.08       | 0.15       | 0.60       | 0.17                     |
|                           | KARNATAKA           | 25.13      | 28.20      | 28.37      | 29.05      | 29.60      | 27.85                    |
|                           | KERALA              | 6.10       | 8.18       | 10.26      | 6.34       | 7.36       | 6.76                     |
|                           | MADHYA PRADESH      | 2.48       | 7.47       | 5.41       | 3.36       | 4.69       | 6.38                     |
|                           | MAHARASHTRA         | 44.84      | 54.03      | 61.53      | 62.93      | 71.82      | 51.94                    |
|                           | ODISHA              |            | 0.01       | 0.03       | 0.02       | 0.04       | 0.04                     |
|                           | PUDUCHERRY          | 0.04       | 0.73       | 0.93       | 0.98       | 0.33       | 0.74                     |
|                           | PUNJAB              | 6.30       | 4.74       | 8.03       | 7.47       | 7.65       | 4.09                     |
|                           | RAJASTHAN           | 7.88 -     | 30.99      | 41.91      | 34.17      | 55.19      | 58.72                    |
|                           | SIKKIM              |            | -          | -          | -          | -          | 0.01                     |
|                           | TAMIL NADU          | 12.08      | 15.55      | 17.54      | 14.35      | 14.67      | 13.68                    |
|                           | TELANGANA           | 5.04       | 6.14       | 8.88       | 8.58       | 7.12       | 4.53                     |
|                           | TRIPURA             | -          | -          | -          | -          | -          | 0.00                     |
|                           | UNSPECIFIED         | 8.70       | 5.08       | 3.11       | 2.29       | 0.32       | 0.23                     |
|                           | UTTAR PRADESH       | 27.67      | 25.67      | 19.97      | 21.06      | 26.98      | 23.53                    |
|                           | UTTARAKHAND         | 2.88       | 2.59       | 2.31       | 2.29       | 3.81       | 6.49                     |

Note: *Figures are Provisional and Subject to Change.

(Source DGCIS)

## The State/UT wise list of approved upto 50- Bedded Integrated AYUSH Hospitals

| Sr. No.   | Name of the State / UT   | Number of upto 50- Bedded Integrated AYUSH Hospitals   |
|-----------|--------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| 1         | Andrnan& Nicobar Islands | 1                                                      |
| 2         | Andhra Pradesh           | 2                                                      |
| 3         | Assam                    | 2                                                      |
| 4         | Bihar                    | I                                                      |
| 5         | Chandigarh               | l                                                      |
| 6         | Chhattisgarh             | 8                                                      |
| 7         | Goa                      | 2                                                      |
| 8         | Haryana                  | 1                                                      |
| 9         | Himachal Pradesh         | 2                                                      |
| 10        | Jammu& Kashrnir          | 5                                                      |
| 11        | Jharkhand                | 1                                                      |
| 12        | Karnataka                | 2                                                      |
| 13        | Kerala                   | 2                                                      |
| 14        | Lakshadweep              | 1                                                      |
| 15        | Madhya Pradesh           | 7                                                      |
| 16        | Maharashtra              | 4                                                      |
| 17        | Manipur                  | 4                                                      |
| 18        | Mizoram                  | 1                                                      |
| 19        | Meghalaya                | 2                                                      |
| 20        | Nagaland                 | 4                                                      |
| 21        | Odisha                   | 3                                                      |
| 22        | Puduchcrry               | 2                                                      |
| 23        | Punjab                   | 2                                                      |
| 24        | Rajasthan                | 6                                                      |
| 25        | Sikkim                   | 1                                                      |
| 26        | Tamil Nadu               | 3                                                      |
| 27        | Telangana                | 3                                                      |
| 28        | Tripura                  | 2                                                      |
| 29        | Uttar Pradesh            | 24                                                     |
| 30        | Uttarakhand              | 3                                                      |
| 31        | West Bengal              | 2                                                      |
| Total     | Total                    | 104                                                    |

The Number of Ayurvedic Colleges opened across the country during the last five years State Wise:

| S.No.   | State             |   Count |
|---------|-------------------|---------|
| 1       | Chhattisgarh      |       1 |
| 2       | Delhi             |       1 |
| 3       | Gujarat           |      17 |
| 4       | Jammu and Kashmir |       1 |
| 5       | Jharkhand         |       1 |
| 6       | Karnataka         |      21 |
| 7       | Madhya Pradesh    |      14 |
| 8       | Maharashtra       |      18 |
| 9       | Meghalaya         |       1 |
| 10      | Odisha            |       1 |
| 11      | Rajasthan         |       1 |
| 12      | Tamil Nadu        |       1 |
| 13      | Uttar Pradesh     |      40 |
| 14      | Uttarakhand       |       9 |
|         | Total             |     127 |