The standing committee has recommended that works related to AIIA be completed within three months from presentation of the report
Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement about the opening of All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) in New Delhi earlier this month, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has criticised the snail’s pace at which work relation to its operations is moving.
The committee observed that there has been a delay in handing over the complete building by HSCC (India) Ltd. to AIIA. There has also been a delay in completing the IT infrastructural work by M/S ITI Ltd, as well as a delay in engaging the manpower through outsourced C&D categories. The standing committee has recommended that works related to AIIA be completed within three months from presentation of the report.
“The construction of the Institute’s six-storey hospital building and academic building is at an advanced stage of completion at Sarita Vihar, notes the 23rd report of Committee on Estimates on Medical Education and Healthcare in the country.
While the standing committee recommended that the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) step up manufacturing infrastructure across the country in the Committee on Estimates report, AYUSH said that Indian Medicines Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited (IMPCL), which is located in Almora district in Uttarakhand, faces many challenges due to it’s geographical location and is at a disadvantage as compared to it’s private competitors.
“The committee fails to understand how the objectives set under the policy would be achieved with NIL allocation of outlay under a large number of schemes and programmes,” it noted.
Further the committee observed that between 2012-13 to 2016-17, only five patents were filed by Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Science; not a single patent was filed in Unani and only one patent was filed in case of Siddha.
When asked to furnish the doctor-patient ratio in AYUSH, the committee was astonished to know that such a list was not being maintained. “Ministry of AYUSH and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare are not at all serious about managing affairs of AYUSH health care in the country let alone improving services,” the report observed.
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