Lok Sabha Question No. 4948 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-04-01
Subject: Availability of AYUSH Medicines in Primary Health Centres
Ministry: AYURVEDA,YOGA & NATUROPATHY,UNANI,SIDDHA AND HOMEOPATHY (AYUSH)
Asked by: Poonamben Hematbhai Maadam

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AYUSH

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.4948 TO BE ANSWERED ON 1 ST  APRIL, 2022

## AVAILABILITY OF AYUSH MEDICINES IN PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRES

## 4948.   SHRIMATI POONAMBEN MAADAM:

Will the Minister of AYUSH be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government is ensuring availability of high quality AYUSH medicines in Government Primary Health Centres;

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

(c) the funds allocated to Gujarat for the AYUSH medicinal conservation and development during the last three financial years?

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

(a) & (b)Public Health being a state subject, to ensure the availability of high quality AYUSH medicines in Primary Health Centres comes  under  the purview  of respective State Government/UT  Governments.  However,  under  the  Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  of  the National AYUSH Mission (NAM), there is a provision of financial assistance for the supply of essential AYUSH medicines through AYUSH facilities including Primary Health Centres in the States/UTs. Ministry of Ayush has approved grants for the supply of essential AYUSH medicines including contingency for Primary Health Centres under NAM from 2014-15 to 2021-22 is furnished in Annexure-I .

(c)  The  funds  allocated  to  Gujarat  for  the  AYUSH  medicinal  plants  conservation  and development under the Central Sector Scheme  for Conservation, Development and Sustainable Management of Medicinal Plants during the last three financial yearsis furnished in Annexure-II .

Annexure-I Status of grants approved for the supply of essential AYUSH medicines including

## contingency for Primary Health Centres under NAM from 2014-15 to 2021-22

| Sl. No.   | Name of States/UTs                 |   Amount approved (Rs. in lakhs) |
|-----------|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| 1.        | Andaman& Nicobar Islands           |                           404.38 |
| 2.        | Andhra Pradesh                     |                             6.6  |
| 3.        | Arunachal Pradesh                  |                            86.6  |
| 4.        | Assam                              |                           259.8  |
| 5.        | Bihar                              |                          1485    |
| 6.        | Chandigarh                         |                            25.1  |
| 7.        | Chhattisgarh                       |                          1360.2  |
| 8.        | Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu |                            51.2  |
| 9.        | Goa                                |                           250    |
| 10.       | Haryana                            |                           749.6  |
| 11.       | Himachal Pradesh                   |                            60.2  |
| 12.       | Jammu &Kashmir                     |                           178.24 |
| 13.       | Jharkhand                          |                           320.1  |
| 14.       | Karnataka                          |                            89.43 |
| 15.       | Lakshadweep                        |                           129.6  |
| 16.       | Madhya Pradesh                     |                          2895    |
| 17.       | Maharashtra                        |                           157.5  |
| 18.       | Manipur                            |                           378.6  |
| 19.       | Mizoram                            |                           106.3  |
| 20.       | Meghalaya                          |                           245.1  |
| 21.       | Nagaland                           |                           123    |
| 22.       | Odisha                             |                          1318.16 |
| 23.       | Puducherry                         |                           337.8  |
| 24.       | Punjab                             |                           192.58 |
| 25.       | Rajasthan                          |                          1856.33 |
| 26.       | Sikkim                             |                            43.8  |
| 27.       | Tamil Nadu                         |                          3708.4  |
| 28.       | Tripura                            |                            82.58 |
| 29.       | Uttrakhand                         |                           372.36 |
| 30.       | West Bengal                        |                           220.53 |
| 31.       | Ladakh                             |                            39.6  |
| Total     | Total                              |                         17533.7  |

## Annexure-II

## The status of funds allocated to Gujarat for the AYUSH medicinal plantsconservation and development during the last three financial years

|   Sl. No. | Year    |   Funds allocated (Rs. in lakhs) |
|-----------|---------|----------------------------------|
|         1 | 2018-19 |                          1434.02 |
|         2 | 2019-20 |                            73.72 |
|         3 | 2020-21 |                           261.2  |