Lok Sabha Question No. 2241 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-11
Subject: Vacant Post of AYUSH Doctors/ Practitioners
Ministry: AYURVEDA,YOGA & NATUROPATHY,UNANI,SIDDHA AND HOMEOPATHY (AYUSH)
Asked by: JYOTI DHURVE

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AYURVEDA, YOGA & NATUROPATHY, UNANI, SIDDHA AND HOMOEOPATHY (AYUSH)

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2241 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11 TH DECEMBER, 2015

## VACANT POST O F AYUSH DOCTORS/ PRA CTITIONERS

## 2241. SHRIMATI JYOTI DHURVE:

Will the Minister of AYURVEDA,YOGA AND NATUROPATHY,UNANI, SIDDHA AND HOMOEOPATHY (AYUSH) be pleased to state:

- (a) whether large number of posts of AYUSH doctors/ practitioners including Homoeopathy a Unani are lying vacant in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof stream and State/UT -wise; and
- (c) the steps being taken to fil l these vacancies along with the time by which these vacancies are likely to be filled?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF STATE (IC) OF THE MINISTRY OF AYURVEDA, YOGA & NATUROPATHY, UNANI, SIDDHA AND HOMOEOPATHY (SHRI SHRIPAD YESSO NAIK)

- (a) & (b):The details of posts of AYUSH doctors/ practitioners including Homoeopathy an Unani lying vacant in CGHS hospitals/ dispensaries stream and State/UT -wise are at Annex .
- (c):        The  vacant  posts  are  filled  by  the  Government  in  consultation  with  the Union  Public Service Commission (UPSC), who advertises the posts and conducts the examinat ions, etc. of the candidates and finally recommends them to this Ministry for appointment as Medical Off (MO)/  Research  Officer  (RO).  The  proposals  for  filling  up  the  vacant  posts  of  MO/RO Ayurveda, Homoeopathy & Unani streams have already been sent to the UPSC recently and the proposal for MO(Unani) is likely to be submitted shortly. The timeline to fill up these vacancies cannot be specified. However, the vacancies can be filled up only after the UPSC recomm the  candidates  and  the  pre - appointme nt  formalities  of  the  recommended  candidates  are completed in consultation with the respective State authorities.

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## ANNEX

| S. No.   | City              | State           |   Ayurveda |   Homeopathy |   Unani |   Siddha |   Total |
|----------|-------------------|-----------------|------------|--------------|---------|----------|---------|
| 1.       | Ahmadabad         | Gujarat         |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 2.       | Allahabad         | Uttar Pradesh   |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 3.       | Bangalore         | Karnataka       |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 4.       | Bhopal            | Madhya Pradesh  |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 5.       | Bhubaneswar       | Odisha          |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 6.       | Chandigarh        |                 |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 7.       | Chennai           | Tamil Nadu      |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 8.       | Dehradun          | Uttarakhand     |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 9.       | Delhi             |                 |         19 |            8 |       2 |        2 |      31 |
| 10.      | Guwahati          | Assam           |          1 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       1 |
| 11.      | Hyderabad         | Andhra Pradesh  |          0 |            1 |       2 |        0 |       3 |
| 12.      | Jabalpur          | Madhya Pradesh  |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 13.      | Jaipur            | Rajasthan       |          0 |            1 |       0 |        0 |       1 |
| 14.      | Jammu             | Jammu & Kashmir |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 15.      | Kanpur            | Uttar Pradesh   |          0 |            1 |       0 |        0 |       1 |
| 16.      | Kolkata           | West Bengal     |          0 |            0 |       1 |        0 |       1 |
| 17.      | Lucknow           | Uttar Pradesh   |          0 |            1 |       0 |        0 |       1 |
| 18.      | Meerut            | Uttar Pradesh   |          0 |            1 |       0 |        0 |       1 |
| 19.      | Mumbai            | Maharashtra     |          1 |            5 |       0 |        0 |       6 |
| 20.      | Nagpur            | Maharashtra     |          1 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       1 |
| 21.      | Patna             | Bihar           |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 22.      | Pune              | Maharashtra     |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 23.      | Ranchi            | Jharkhand       |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 24.      | Shillong          | Meghalaya       |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
| 25.      | Thiruvanathapuram | Kerala          |          0 |            0 |       0 |        0 |       0 |
|          | Total             |                 |         22 |           18 |       5 |        2 |      47 |

Source: CGHS