Guwahati: Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal, on Tuesday informed the Rajya Sabha that the Central sector ‘Ayurgyan Scheme’ has been instrumental in building capacity in the Ayush sector. In response to a question, the Union Minister informed the house that scientists from Assam have also availed the benefits of this scheme.
Speaking on the Ayurgyan Scheme, Minister Sonowal said, “The scheme has been utilised to build capacity in Ayush through continued medical education and also research and innovation. Both Ayush doctors as well as non-Ayush scientists have been trained under this scheme. The ministries of Health and Family Welfare and Ayush have been working in tandem since 2021 and the practice of integrative medicine has been put in place in leading medical institutions of the country like the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).”
Minister Sonowal said that it is imperative that the best of traditional medicine as well as contemporary medicine must be harnessed through integrative medicine with an aim to treat and enrich the quality of lives of the people of the country, as per an official press release.
“The world is talking about positives from traditional medicine for enriching the quality of lives. Today, the whole world celebrates Yoga Day as it has become a torchbearer in the wellness movement across the globe. Prime Minister Modi’s pursuit to make Yoga a global movement transformed into reality when the United Nations (UN) adopted to celebrate June 21 as the ‘International Day of Yoga’ since 2015. This year, Prime Minister Modi led the yoga day celebrations from the UN headquarters in New York along with representatives of more than 180 countries making it a truly global movement,” Minister Sonowal said.
Minister Sonowal added that taking a cue from this, the ministry has been working towards building capacity in Ayush through multiple programmes including the Ayurgyan Scheme so that it complements the idea of integrative medicine towards health and wellness of the people, the release said.
The Union Minister further said that when Prime Minister Modi gave the ‘One Family, One Earth, One Future’ as a guiding principle at the G20 Summit in New Delhi earlier this year, the government remains firmly on course to integrate best of both the words ‘traditional’ and ‘contemporary’ towards building ‘One Health’ with enriched and healthier humanity.