Lok Sabha Question No. 471 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-04
Subject: Number of Ayurvedic Educational Institutes/Ayurvedic Hospitals
Ministry: AYURVEDA,YOGA & NATUROPATHY,UNANI,SIDDHA AND HOMEOPATHY (AYUSH)
Asked by: Nalin Kumar Kateel

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AYUSH

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.-471 ANSWERED ON 04/02/2022

## 'NUMBER OF AYURVEDIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES/ AYURVEDIC HOSPITALS'

## 471   SHRI NALIN KUMAR KATEEL:

Will the Minister of AYUSH be pleased to state:

- (a) the total number of Ayurvedic Educational Institutes/ Ayurvedic Hospitals functioning in the country, State-wise and district-wise;
- (b) whether  the  Government  has  formulated  any  action  plan  to  preserve  the  ancient medical system of Ayurveda by encouraging research and development in this system; and
- (c) if so, the details of the major research and development projects taken up by the Ministry during the last three years?

## ANSWER

## MINISTRY OF AYUSH (SHRI SARBANANDA SONOWAL)

(a)At present there are four hundred thirty four(434) Ayurvedic Colleges (Education Institutes)and  their  attached  Hospitals  functioning  in  the  country.  The  State-wisedetails  are placed at Annexure-I .

(b)  Government of India has established Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, an autonomous  body  under  the  Ministry  of  AYUSH  as  an  apex  organization  for  undertaking, coordinating, formulating, developing  and  promoting  research  in  Ayurvedic  sciences  on scientific lines. The activities are carried out through 30 Institutes/Centers/Units located all over the  India  and  also  through  collaborative  studies  with  various  Universities,  Hospitals  and institutes. The details of 30 institutes are placed as Annexure -II.

The core areas of research comprise Clinical Research; Medicinal Plant Research (Medico-ethno botanical  Survey,Pharmacognosy&  Cultivation);  Drug  Standardization  &  Quality  Control; Pharmacological Research and Literary &FundamentalResearch.The Council is also conducting Research  Oriented  Public  Health  Care  Programmes  (Outreach  Activities)  which  comprise  of Tribal Health Care Research Programme, Ayurvedic Mobile Health Care Research Programme under Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP), and Ayurvedic Health Centres under North East Plan.

Besides this,Health care services through Out-Patient Department (OPD), In-Patient Departments (IPDs) and Special clinics for Geriatric Health care are also being provided.

- (c)   Major Research projects taken up during the last three years:-
-  Under Clinical research, research projects for validation of classical Ayurveda formulations  in  identified  disease  conditions  to  generate  tangible  evidence  on  their clinical efficacy and safety were undertaken.Also clinical trials on Ayurveda formulations in prioritized disease areas were undertaken under drug development.
-  Undertaken Systematic Reviews and meta-analysis studies in 30 disease conditions.
-  Undertaken  research  project  on    Integration  of  AYUSH  (Ayurveda)  with  NPCDCS (National  Programme  for  Prevention  and  Control  of  Cancer,  Diabetes,  Cardiovascular diseases & Stroke) in three districts viz. Surendranagar (Gujarat), Bhilwara (Rajasthan), Gaya  (Bihar)to  demonstrate  the  feasibility  of  integration  of  Ayurveda  involving  49 CHCs,  3 District Hospitals and 189 PHC .
-  A collaborative project in association with Govt. of Maharashtra to  see the feasibility of introducing  Ayurvedic  interventions  in  Reproductive  and  Child  Health  (RCH)  through integrative health care services in 30 selected PHCs of Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra was also undertaken
-  CCRAS COVID-19 studies -During the outbreak of COVID-19, research projects related to Prophylaxis, Management, awareness and pre-clinical studies were also undertaken in collaboration with reputed institutes.
-  Research project related to Bio-instrumentation.
-  Medicinal  Plant  Research  projects  related  to  pharmacognostical  evaluation  of  crude drugs, development of In-Vitro and In -vivo propagation protocols, pictorial database of economically  important  plants,  development  of  micro-forest,  digitization  of  Herbarium sheets and development of Digital Herbarium, development of agro techniques, Establishment of National raw Drug repository were undertaken.
-  Under Drug Standardization and Quality Control, research projects on chemo profiling of medicinal  plant, Quality assessment  of  the  single  drugs  and  compound  formulations  , Qualitative and quantitative assessment of marker /Phyto-chemical reference standards of Ayurveda  formulations    and  development  of  quality  standards  of  identified  Ayurveda formulations were undertaken.
-  Under Pharmacological Research, research projects on biological activity and safety of Ayurveda  formulations/plants,genotoxicity  studies  on  experimental  models  in  different animal species were undertaken .
-  Literary research projects on Revival, Retrieval & Documentation of Ayurveda & Indian Medical Heritage, translation of Ayurveda classical literature, development of e-books, documentation and validation of LHTs and folk claim were undertaken.
-  Research  projects  on  development  of  IT  based  tools  such  as  Prakriti  assessment, Swaasthya  assessment  scale,  NAMASTE  portal    ,  Ayurveda  diagnostics  etc  were  also undertaken
-  Public  Health  oriented  research  projects  on  Tribal  Health  Care  Research  Programme under Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) -, Ayurveda Mobile Health Care Research Programmeunder

Scheduled Castes Sub  Plan (SCSP),Reproductive and Child Health  Care  (RCH) Programme  under  Scheduled  Castes  Sub  Plan  (SCSP)  and  Ayurvedic  Health  Centres under North East Plan- functioning at 19centres in 4 States i.e. Assam, Sikkim , Itanagar and Tripura were also undertaken .

-  CCRAS is also continuously engaged in development of new Ayurvedic drugs. So far, CCRAS has developed  11  technologies  which  have  been  transferred  through  National Research Development Corporation (NRDC).

## ANNEXURE - I

States- wise Number of AyurvedicColleges (Educational Institutes) and their attached Hospitals.

| S. NO.   | NAME OF STATE                          |   NO. OF COLLEGES |
|----------|----------------------------------------|-------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad)             |                 3 |
| 2.       | Assam (Dispur)                         |                 1 |
| 3.       | Bihar (Patna)                          |                 8 |
| 4.       | Chhattisgarh (Raipur)                  |                 6 |
| 5.       | Goa (Panaji)                           |                 1 |
| 6.       | Gujarat (Gandhinagar)                  |                34 |
| 7.       | Haryana (Chandigarh)                   |                11 |
| 8.       | Himachal Pradesh (Shimla)              |                 3 |
| 9.       | Jammu & Kashmir (Srinagar{S}, Jammu{W} |                 2 |
| 10.      | Jharkhand (Ranchi)                     |                 1 |
| 11.      | Karnataka (Bangalore)                  |                83 |
| 12.      | Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram)            |                18 |
| 13.      | Madhya Pradesh (Bhopal)                |                25 |
| 14.      | Maharashtra (Mumbai)                   |                86 |
| 15.      | Odisha (Bhubaneshwar)                  |                 6 |
| 16.      | Punjab (Chandigarh)                    |                17 |
| 17.      | Rajasthan (Jaipur)                     |                13 |
| 18.      | Tamil Nadu (Chennai)                   |                 7 |
| 19.      | Telangana (Hyderabad)                  |                 5 |
| 20.      | Uttarakhand (Dehradun)                 |                16 |
| 21.      | Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow)                |                78 |
| 22.      | West Bengal (Kolkata)                  |                 4 |
| 23.      | Chandigarh (Chandigarh)                |                 1 |
| 24.      | Meghalaya (Shillong)                   |                 1 |
| 25.      | Pondicherry (Puducherry)               |                 1 |
| 26.      | The Govt. of NCT of Delhi (Delhi)      |                 3 |
| TOTAL    | TOTAL                                  |               434 |

## State-wise peripheral Institutes/Centers of CCRAS

| State                       | Name of the Institutes/Centre/Units                                                                                  |
|-----------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| AndhraPradesh               | 1. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Vijayawada-520015                                                           |
| Arunachal Pradesh           | 2. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Itanagar -791111                                                            |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 3. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Port Blair - 744101                                                         |
| Assam                       | 4. Central Ayurveda Research Institute Beltola, Guwahati-781028                                                      |
| Bihar                       | 5. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, D Block, Rajindra Memorial Res., Institute Building, AgamKuan, Patna-800007 |
| Delhi                       | 6. Central Ayurveda Research Institute, Road No.66, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi - 110026                                 |
| Goa                         | 7. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute for Mineral and Marine Medicinal Resources, Goa                              |
| Gujarat                     | 8. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute Asarwa, Ahmedabad- 380016                                                    |
| Himachal Pradesh            | 9. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Gandhi Bhawan, Mandi- 175001                                                |
| Jammu &Kashmir              | 10. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, JDA Housing Colony, Ban Talab, Rajender Nagar, Jammu-181123                |
| Karnataka                   | 11. Central Ayurveda Research Institute, Bengaluru                                                                   |
| Kerala                      | 12. National Ayurveda Research Institute for Panchakarma, Cheruthuruthy- 679531                                      |
| Kerala                      | 13. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute,Poojapura, Trivandrum- 695012                                               |
| MadhyaPradesh               | 14. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Amkho, Gwalior-474009                                                      |
| Maharashtra                 | 15. Raja RamdeoAnandilalPodar (RRAP) Central Ayurveda Research Institute, RA Podar College, Worli, Mumbai-400018     |
| Maharashtra                 | 16. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, NIT Complex, Nandanwan, Nagpur-440009                                      |
| Maharashtra                 | 17. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Pune- 411038                                                               |
| Nagaland                    | 18. Regional Ayurveda Research Centre, Dimapur (Nagaland) - 797112                                                   |
| Orissa                      | 19. Central Ayurveda Research Institute, Bharatpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751003                                       |
| Punjab                      | 20. Central Ayurveda Research Institute, MotiBagh Road, Patiala- 147001                                              |
| Rajasthan                   | 21. M.S. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Indira Colony, Bani Park, Jhotwara Road, Jaipur-302016.               |

## ANNEXURE - II

| Sikkim        | 22. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Tadong, Gangtok -737102                                                |
|---------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Tamil Nadu    | 23. Dr. AchantaLakshmipati Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, VHS Campus, TTTI Post, Chennai-600113           |
| Tamil Nadu    | 24. Captain Srinivasa Murthy Central Ayurveda Research Institute, Chennai - 600106.                              |
| Telengana     | 25. National Centre of Indian Medical Heritage, Hyderabad - 500036                                               |
| Tripura       | 26. Regional Ayurveda Research Centre, 135, Ramnagar Road, No. 4 Opp. of Raj Bhandar, Agartala, Tripura - 799002 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 27. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute, Indira Nagar, Lucknow- 226016                                          |
| Uttar Pradesh | 28. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute , Jhansi - 284003                                                       |
| Uttarakhand   | 29. Regional Ayurveda Research Institute , Thapla, Ranikhet- 263645                                              |
| West Bengal   | 30. Central Ayurveda Research Institute, 4 CN Block, Sector V, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata-700091                      |