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NCISM notifies regulations setting minimum standards & rating of UG Ayurveda, Siddha colleges & attached hospitals
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Gireesh Babu, New Delhi
May 13 , 2024
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The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) has notified regulations setting minimum essential standards, assessment and rating of Undergraduate (UG) Ayurveda and Siddha colleges and attached teaching hospitals, by repealing the prevailing regulations.
The two regulations, issued as separate notifications in the end of April and in the beginning of May, are in force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette, said the Commission.
The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (Minimum essential standards, assessment and rating for undergraduate Ayurveda colleges and attached teaching hospitals) Regulations, 2024 replaces the Indian Medicine Central Council (Requirements of Minimum Standard for under-graduate Ayurveda Colleges and attached Hospitals) Regulations, 2016 and the Establishment of New Medical College, Opening of New or Higher Course of Study or Training and Increase of Admission Capacity by a Medical College Regulations, 2019.
The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (Minimum Essential Standards, Assessment and Rating for Undergraduate Siddha Colleges and Attached Teaching Hospitals) Regulations, 2024 replaces the Indian Medicine Central Council (Requirements of Minimum Standard for Under-graduate Siddha colleges and attached hospitals) Regulations, 2016 and the Establishment of New Medical College, Opening of new or Higher Course of Study or Training and Increase of Admission Capacity by a Medical College Regulations,2019 except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, said the Commission.
The medical institutions fully established or under establishment before the publication of these regulations may continue with the same infrastructure, except for the infrastructural standards provided in a particular list in the regulation. The requirements as per the list shall be fulfilled as per the timeline provided in the regulation. The time lines provided in the particular list of the regulation are maximum and no relaxation shall be provided thereafter. According to the list, the works in the campus and the colleges are expected to be completed between one to 18 months, while in hospitals, some are to be implemented with immediate effect while others have to be completed within 18 to 24 months.
The Medical Assessment and Rating Board for Indian System of Medicine or any rating agency authorised by the Commission will carry out rating for the fully established UG institutions, in four grades from A to D. It also stipulates the fee structure for the institutions to apply for rating and establishment of new UG institutions.
The regulations for Ayurveda institutions and hospitals are based on the annual intake capacity of sixty, hundred, one hundred fifty and two hundred students, and it stipulates the minimum requirement of land based on the capacity.
The land shall not be more than in two plots and the distance between the two plots shall not exceed five kilometres, and if the plots are separated by a road or canal or rivulet but connected with a bridge shall be treated as one piece of land. However, in case of metro, mega, Tier-I and Tier-II cities (X and Y categories) North-Eastern States, Hilly areas and notified Tribal area, the distance between two plots shall not be more than ten kilometres.
It also stipulates the requirement for the campus for an Ayurveda medical college, an information technology cell equipped to manage all IT related activities of the college and its units including the attached teaching hospitals, biometric attendance system, closed-circuit television, and a college website with various details prescribed in the notification.
In order to maintain the quality standards, instruments, equipment, chemicals, reagents, furniture, electronic appliances and the like with Bureau of Indian Standards certification may be used. There are also minimum norms and standards for lecture halls or class rooms, hall, library, digital library, teaching departments, language laboratory, among others.
It also mandates that the institute shall have Yogya-Clinical skill laboratory or simulation laboratory with models, mannequins, virtual or augmented reality teaching and training technology, simulators to cater the needs of training of clinical and other skills as per the prescribed curriculum and syllabus, demonstration and practice rooms equipped with information communication technology like smart board, audio-visual equipment and the like, and reception, record keeping facility, storage facility, among others.
The institutes shall also establish human resource development cell under the chairmanship of the director or dean or principal, to serve as medical education technology training unit or quality improvement program conduction unit for teachers as well as orientation or training to medical, paramedical, technical, administrative and supportive staff of the Institution. The institutes should also have a Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cell with an Institutional Innovation Committee headed by the chairperson of the institute.
Each college shall also have an internal quality assurance cell for planning, guiding and monitoring quality assurance and quality enhancement activities of the institute. Institutions shall have an Academic Committee for planning, execution and monitor teaching schedules, a Students council and a Student Support, Career Guidance and Placement Cell.
The regulation also elaborates the requirements as per the minimum essential standards for an attached teaching hospital, including the outpatient and inpatient departments, norms, procedure and standard of the drug stores and dispensary, minimum attendance of patients in OP department, among others.
For institutes with an intake capacity of sixty students per year, the minimum average number of patients per day in OPD should be 120, while for 100 students it should be 200, for 150 students 300 patients and 200 students, it should be 400 patients.
With effect from publication of these regulations, the Ayurveda medical institutions shall be categorised into two categories i.e., ‘Extended Permission’ and ‘Yearly Permission’. Fully established institutions under section 28 that have been permitted consecutively for three years shall be categorised under ‘Extended Permission’ category, subject to conditions. Fully established medical Institutions that are not fulfilling the criteria for ‘extended permission’ shall be categorised under ‘Yearly Permission’ category.
All medical institutes irrespective of category (extended permission or yearly permission) shall keep uploading (self-disclosure) the data in the prescribed format on the Commissions online platform on or before 10th of every month for the preceding month data or as specified by the Commission from time to time.
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