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Panel asks Ministry of Ayush to conduct comprehensive revision of curricula in Ayush streams
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Gireesh Babu, New Delhi
January 16 , 2026
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The Parliamentary Panel on Health and Family Welfare has urged the Ministry of Ayush to conduct a comprehensive revision of curricula across all Ayush streams to modernise and integrate latest technologies and prepare a detailed implementation plan with timelines and measurable outcomes.
The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare in its 168th report on action taken by the government on the recommendations the Panel has made in the 165th report on Demands for Grants 2025-26 of the Ministry of Ayush, also sought the Ministry to furnish details of its recommendations regarding enhancing the Ayush MBBS curriculum and wider adoption of one-year nursing course within the systems of medicine.
The Panel, while looking into the response from the Ministry on the updates of the Homoeopathy Education Board on incorporating interdisciplinary knowledge, research methodology, and skill enhancement in the syllabus, noted that the Action Taken report lacks on how soft skills such as communication, ethical responsibility, discipline, and professionalism are explicitly integrated across all Ayush disciplines.
Besides, the Panel expressed its concern that a comprehensive response hasn't been submitted covering all the autonomous bodies/institute and research councils under Ayush. The recommendation to modernise the curriculum through technology integration and creation of a technology enabled workforce also remains unaddressed, it criticised.
"The Committee, therefore, may be apprised about the actions that have been taken by all the bodies concerned with that matter under Ayush," said the Panel headed by Prof. Ram Gopal Yadav in a recent report.
"The Committee urges the Ministry to ensure a comprehensive revision of curricula across all Ayush streams that systematically incorporates soft skills training and modern technological competencies. A detailed implementation plan with timelines and measurable outcomes should be submitted for the Committee's review," it added.
In the previous report, the Panel has sought the Ministry to take various steps to enhance education in integrated healthcare, but later noted with concern that the Ministry has not provided proper response to this.
The Panel said that it expects the Ministry to provide comprehensive details of the Action Taken on the given recommendation that internship in Ayush MBBS curriculum be enhanced to at least 15 days.
"The Committee is of firm view that such a step would ensure a holistic knowledge sharing between conventional and alternative system of medicine," it averred.
The Ministry has also not addressed the recommendation that one-year nursing course started within Ayush be adopted on a wider scale. It sought the Ministry to apprise the steps taken so far to propagate the nursing course across India as per healthcare requirements.
In the previous report, the Panel opined that the Ayush Education System has still require miles to march to play a level playing performance with allopathic system of medicine, and recommended that soft skills among Ayush practitioners should be incorporated into the syllabus of all components of Ayush.
This should aim at instilling the highest degree of responsibility, discipline and virtue in delivering healthcare to the masses. This would also in turn lead to increase in the Indian Systems of Medicine and would slowly and surely do away with the skepticism towards the alternative medicines, it opined.
The Panel, during the time, also recommended integration of technology in the Ayush curriculum for modernization and creating technology enabled workforce.
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