JAIPUR, June 24:
Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Y Naik today said there was no dearth of funds for states wanting to expand medical care facilities in this sector.
AYUSH ministry had asked all states to submit their proposal, action plan, and funds requirement for AYUSH’s (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) expansion and medical care, Naik said at a function while inaugurating the state’s first Swasthya Kalayan Institute of Naturopathy and Yogic Science college here at Sitapura Industrial area.
New ministry of Ayush will try to provide for every need of the state on their proposals and grants requirement, Naik said, adding, the ministry has already raised the state’s fund allocation by 10 per cent from 32 to 42 per cent, Naik said.
“A few states have submitted their plans to the ministry. Whatever budget they (states) want, it would be tried to provide them as there is no dearth of funds,” he said.
In the union budget for the FY 2015-16, the health sector has been allotted Rs 33,152 crore, while AYUSH has a budgetary support of Rs 1214 crore. “Till last year, Ayush was a department under Health
Ministry but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has carved out it as a separate ministry…And it will promote India’s leading methods of treatment too,” Naik claimed.
AYUSH is committed for development and it requires wider publicity and communication in masses so that rural people could get its benefit, the MoS said.
Hailing International Yoga Day observed across the world on June 21, Naik said Yoga and Naturopathy would link nations on one platform and would set up icons in near future.
Earlier, speaking on the occasion, Rajasthan Health and Medical Minister R S Rathore demanded that the state be given a special status of Ayush as it was holding the maximum infrastructure in AYUSH and 5,124 Ayurved colleges and a University.
He also appealed to the Ayush Ministry to approve Rajasthan’s proposal of a yoga and panchkarm centre.
“There was a shortage of trained yoga teachers, so one-year course would be started in state-run colleges to meet the need and public interest,” he said, adding, till then yoga experts would be hired. (PTI)
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