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CCRS refutes allegations by Ayushpathy, claims great achievements in one decade
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Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai.
December 31 , 2022
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Amidst high demand being made by the well-wishers of the Siddha system that the Chennai-based Central Council for Research in Siddha (CCRS) should be shifted to New Delhi, a senior officer from the council has stated that the council is dedicatedly doing its activities and bringing fantastic results although it is situated in a distant place away from Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
The officer was responding to a report appeared in media by the Siddha practitioners association, Ayushpathy, that either the CCRS or the Central Siddha Medical Institution, National Institute of Siddha, or the Siddha Medical Colleges at Arumbakkom and Palayamkottai are not taking any initiative to popularize the system in the national level in the way the Central Council for Research in Ayurveda (CCRA) is doing. An officer in charge of the regional siddha research institute in Pondicherry, on behalf of the CCRS said they are doing their work properly and not supposed to interfere in the policy matters of the government. He said steps to start educational institutions in other states are based on policy matters of the government and the institutions have no role in it. The officer said they are ready to work in Delhi or in Mumbai or in any part of the country.
There is allegation by all the stakeholders of siddha that the headquarters of the research centre was shifted to Tamil Nadu from Delhi after bifurcating the combined council CCRAS in 2010 by the influence of Chennai based officers. Since all the officers of the CCRS belong to Tamil Nadu they prefer to work in Chennai rather than going to Delhi for permanent settlement. Besides, the research council has not even an officer or research scholar from north India. Taking advantage of this, the officers influenced the then central government and shifted the base of CCRS from New Delhi to Chennai for their convenience, it is alleged.
While talking to Pharmabiz, the president of the dedicated Siddha practitioners association, Ayushpathy, had commented that he would write to the Union Ayush Minister and to the prime minister that the government should revise its earlier decision and rethink for a further shift of the headquarter of CCRS to New Delhi. Another charges made against the Union Ayush Ministry by the association is that the ministry has some kind of partisan attitude towards Ayurveda and avoids all other traditional systems in the ayush. He felt that the Government of India was sidelining siddha and not interested in promoting the system at the national level. The officer of CCRS was responding to this statement of the Ayushpathy.
In a statement issued to Pharmabiz, Dr. Sathyarajeswaran, assistant director of Siddha Regional Research Institute (SRRI) in Pondicherry, a regional office of CCRS, has said the initiative to start more educational institutions in various places in the country has to be taken by the National Council for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) and not the CCRS or NIS. Refuting all the allegations made by siddha practitioners, he claimed that after the establishment of CCRS in 2010, it started one regional institute in Kerala and two siddha research units, one each in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Recently, one unit was established at Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi and a cancer research OPD in the All India Institute of Ayurveda in the national capital.
Talking to Pharmabiz, Dr. Sathyarajeswaran said in the last seven years period CCRS had published 11 patent applications and five more are under examination now. Similarly, 40 projects were allotted and 50 siddha graduates have been given assignments in various projects. He said those who want to shift the headquarters from Chennai to New Delhi do not know what the research council is doing in Chennai.
“We have published the ‘Varmam Treatment Guidelines’ on the basis of international collaboration with Government of Malaysia and have taken efforts to publish standardized terminologies and morbidity codes for Siddha medicines in NAMASTE – Portal (National Ayush Morbidity and Standardized Terminologies Electronic Portal) and also working with WHO to publish diagnostic codes and terminologies in association with other systems. AHIMS is the hospital information management system of Ayush which was developed by CCRS,” said the assistant director of the CCRS.
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