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Lok Sabha to discuss 2020 Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Bill
Lok Sabha to discuss 2020 Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Bill

The institute will develop patterns of teaching in medical education in Ayurveda and pharmacy. It will bring together educational facilities for training of personnel in all branches of Ayurveda.

19 March 2020 Current Affairs:Lok Sabha is to take up the Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Bill, 2020, for consideration on 19 March. 

Bill provisions:
♦ The bill aims to provide for the establishment of an Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda by merging three Ayurveda institutes. It seeks to declare the institution as an institution of national importance for the promotion of quality and excellence in education, research, and training in Ayurveda and allied disciplines.
♦ The existing institutes that are to be merged are the Institute of Post Graduate Teaching and Research in Ayurveda, Jamnagar; Shree Gulabkunverba Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Jamnagar; the Indian Institute of Ayurvedic Pharmaceutical Sciences, Jamnagar.  
♦ The institute will develop patterns of teaching in medical education in Ayurveda and pharmacy. It will bring together educational facilities for training of personnel in all branches of Ayurveda.
♦ The institute will attain self-sufficiency in postgraduate education to meet the need for specialists and medical teachers in Ayurveda.
♦ The Teaching and Research institute will make an in-depth study and research in the field of Ayurveda.