Lok Sabha Question No. 472 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-04
Subject: Launching of Five Important Portals by the Government
Ministry: AYURVEDA,YOGA & NATUROPATHY,UNANI,SIDDHA AND HOMEOPATHY (AYUSH)
Asked by: Vinod Kumar Sonkar, Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo, Sukanta Majumdar, Rajveer (Raju Bhaiya) Singh, Bhola Singh, Raja Amareshwara Naik, Jayanta Kumar Roy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AYUSH

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 472 TO BE ANSWERED ON 4 TH  FEBRUARY, 2022

## LAUNCHING OF FIVE IMPORTANT PORTALS BY THE GOVERNMENT

## 472. SHRI VINOD KUMAR SONKAR:

SHRIMATI SANGEETA KUMARI SINGH DEO:

DR. SUKANTA MAJUMDAR:

SHRI RAJVEER SINGH (RAJU BHAIYA):

SHRI BHOLA SINGH:

SHRI RAJA AMARESHWARA NAIK:

DR. JAYANTA KUMAR ROY:

Will the Minister of AYUSH be pleased to state:

- (a)    whether  the  Government  has  launched  five  important  Portals  related  to  AYUSH during the current year and if so, the details thereof;
- (b)  whether the Government maintains the Register of Clinical Trials under the World Health Organization's International Clinical Trials Registry Platform and if so, the details thereof;
- (c)  whether  the  launch  of  'WHO  mYoga'  App  and  Y-break  app  has  increased  the popularity of AYUSH among citizens of the country and if so, the details thereof;
- (d)  whether  the  Government  has  marked  another  milestone  recently  by  launching  its Ayush  Clinical  Case  Repository  (ACCR)  portal  and  the  third  version  of  Ayush Sanjivani App and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e)  other steps being taken by the Government to accelerate the acceptance of AYUSH at the global level?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF MINISTRY OF AYUSH (SHRI SARBANANDA SONOWAL)

- a) Yes, Sir. The following five portals  are launched in the  year 2021 for research and medicine by the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), an autonomous body under the Ministry :
- i) Clinical Trials Registry- India (CTRI)
3. ii) AYUSH Manuscripts Advanced Repository (AMAR),
4. iii) Showcase of Ayurvedic Historical Imprints (SAHI),
5. iv) e-Medical Heritage Accession (e-Medha),
- v) Research Management Information System (RMIS)
- b) No such registry is being maintained by the Ministry.
- c) Yes,  Sir.  WHO  mYoga  App  is  Government  of  India  and  WHO  joint  initiative  to create  awareness  &  empower  the  health  and  well-being  of  general  public  through

Yoga  in  their  daily  life.  It  has  created  awareness  in  public  and  the  app  has  been downloaded 50,000 + worldwide, app is rated as 4.8/5 rating in the Android version and 5/5 rating in iOS version.

The Y-Break App- a unique five-minute Yoga protocol app is designed especially for working professionals to de-stress, refresh and re-focus at their workplace to increase their  productivity  which  consists  of  Asanas,  Pranayama  and  Dhyana.  It  has  created awareness about Yoga practice in public mainly in working population. Total number of downloads as on date are 64,000 (Android & iOS).

- d)  Yes, Sir.  Ministry of  Ayush has launched Ayush Clinical Case Repository (ACCR) Portal and Ayush Sanjivani App version 3.0 on 27.05.2021.

Ayush Clinical Case Repository Portal (ACCR) -This portal will facilitate the posting  of  success  stories/successfully  treated  cases  by  Ayush  practitioners.  These cases will help Ayush practitioners to know approaches adopted by their colleagues in the  treatment  of  various  patients.  The  public  can  also  go  through  these  cases  and understand  the  strengths  of  various  Ayush  systems  in  the  treatment  of  various ailments/diseases and adopt informed choices for the treatment as and when required.

Ayush  Sanjivani App-Ayush  Sanjivani  App  version  1.0  has helped in documenting the impact assessment of effectiveness, acceptance and usage of Ayush advisories & measures in the prevention of COVID-19 through the Mobile app base population study.

The current version has been launched for collecting data related to the study on  AYUSH-64 and  Kabasura  Kudineer  distribution  among  the  isolated  COVID-19 patients  campaign    through  Research  Councils  and  National  Institute  under  the Ministry of Ayush across the country.

- e)  The  Ministry  developed  a  Central  Sector  Scheme  for  promotion  of  International Cooperation  (IC)  with  the  mandate  to  promote  and  strengthen  awareness  about AYUSH Systems  of  Medicine;  to  facilitate  international  promotion,  development and  recognition  of  AYUSH  Systems  in  foreign  countries;  to  establish  AYUSH centres  in  foreign  countries;  to  support  international  exchange  of  experts  and information;  to  give  boost  to  AYUSH  products  in  International  market  and  to establish AYUSH Academic Chairs in foreign countries etc.

Ministry of Ayush under its IC scheme undertakes various activities for promotion of AYUSH globally. As of now, Ministry of Ayush has collaborated with more than 50 countries  for  promotion  of  Ayurveda,  Yoga  and  all  AYUSH  systems  by  virtue  of signing  of  country  to  country  MoU,  research  collaborations,  MoU  for  establishing academic  chairs  of  Ayush  in  foreign  universities, setting  up  of  Ayurveda/Ayush hospitals/academic institute, setting up of herbal garden, exchange of experts, deputation of Ayush experts, organizing workshops, conferences etc. Moreover every year 104 seats are allocated to foreign countries coming from different parts of world to  learn  Ayurveda,  Yoga,  Unani  etc.  respective  Ayush  systems.  The  students  are provided scholarships, tuition fees, to and fro air fare etc. to study Ayush systems in India.

Memorandum of Understanding with different Countries: As of now, Ministry of AYUSH  has  signed  25  Country  to  Country  MoUs  for  Cooperation  in  field  of Traditional  Medicine  with  Nepal,  Bangladesh,  Hungary,  Mauritius,  WHO-  Geneva,

Germany (Joint declaration), Iran, Japan (Memorandum of Cooperation), China etc. 32  MoUs  for  undertaking  Collaborative  Research  /  Academic  collaboration  in  the field of AYUSH, signed with foreign institutes/universities.

## Establishment of AYUSH Academic Chairs at foreign universities/institutes: 14

MoUs  for  setting  up  AYUSH  Academic  Chairs  have  been  signed  with  foreign institutes  at  Australia,  Mauritius,  Latvia,  Hungary,  Slovenia,  Armenia,  Russia, Malaysia, South Africa, Bangladesh, Thailand etc.

AYUSH Information  Cell: 37  AYUSH  Information  Cell  have  been  set  up  in  34 countries  to  disseminate  authentic  information  about  AUSH  systems  of  Medicine. Ayurveda  day,  IDY  etc.  are  also  being  celebrated  every  year  through  Ayush Information Cells.

## Collaborations with WHO by signing various agreements as under:

-  Under    WHO    Traditional    Medicine    Strategy  2014-2023,   a project Collaboration Agreement (PCA) for cooperation on promoting the quality, safety and effectiveness of service provision in traditional and complementary medicine.
-  Subsequently  another  Agreement  on  Cooperation  on  integration  of  traditional  and complementary medicine into health care system by development      of         WHO terminology and WHO  publication on standard terminology in Ayurveda, Unani, and Siddha.
-  A             Donor            Agreement with             WHO towards  the  implementation  of developing  a  Second  Module  in  the  Traditional  Medicine  (TM)  Chapter  of  the International Classification of Diseases -11 Revision (ICD-11)
-  A  Letter  of  Exchange  (LoE)  for  deputation  secondment/deputation  of  an  AYUSH expert to WHO's regional traditional medicine programme at WHO-SEARO's office, New Delhi.
-  An  agreement  with  the  WHO  for  developing  M-Yoga-  an  m  Health  Program  for Yoga.
-  An  agreement  with  the  WHO  for  secondment/deputation  of  an  AYUSH  expert  to WHO at TCI, Unit, WHO Hq., Geneva