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Ayush ministry needs to strike a balance between policies to promote Ayurveda & Siddha: Ayushpathy
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Peethaambaran Kunnathoor, Chennai
December 29 , 2022
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The president of ‘Ayushpathy’, the Ayush Practitioners Association in Tamil Nadu, has said that the Union Ministry of Ayush (MoA) should strike a balance between its policies and approach towards promoting Ayurveda and other traditional systems of medicines in the country.
The Siddha community in the state feels that they are being sidelined by both Central and state governments in their policy matters and developmental projects, the association alleged.
Alleging that both the Central and state governments are least interested to promote siddha in the national domain, Dr. Alexander Yesudasan, the president of the association has said that no project of the Union Ayush Ministry gives priority to siddha or any other system, but everything is aimed to promote and develop Ayurveda only. He said the nodal officers of the siddha system who include the officers of the CCRS, NIS, SCRI and the two medical colleges are also not taking any initiative with the Central or state government to establish a college or hospital out of Tamil Nadu.
“They are the nodal officers of the system, but they are passive in their attitude and vision. I am preparing a comprehensive proposal to be submitted to the Prime Minister and to the Ayush minister raising some demands to develop Siddha across the country. Only through educational institutions and hospitals can this traditional system be promoted and developed. But the responsible people are not acting or not highlighting the issues. Ayushpathy will also try to apprise the state government about the steps to be taken to promote siddha in the national level,” said Dr. Alexander who is the director of Medzone Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd in Chennai, a company manufacturing Siddha medicines and food supplements.
He said the Siddha graduates in the state feel that either the Central government or the state government has no plan for starting a college outside the state, and in the private sector no one is interested to invest on some educational or healthcare project to develop Siddha. The only institution started outside of Tamil Nadu is in Kerala, Sannthigiri College, which is in the private sector. Ayushpathy will pass a resolution demanding the state government to work for starting a Siddha college in New Delhi.
As regards the Central institutes, he said shifting the CCRS after bifurcating erstwhile Central Council of Research in Ayurveda and Siddha (CCRAS) into CCRA, to Chennai has not made any progress to the growth of Siddha system, but the officers who are from Tamil Nadu only, could become the beneficiaries. All of them are working in Chennai. He said he will seek the attention of the Union Ayush Ministry to this crucial issue and want the government to shift the CCRS further to New Delhi where all other Central councils and research centres are functioning. Dr. Alexander further alleged that no research activity has been carried out in CCRS for the last 12 years.
Blaming the local associations of Siddha doctors, teachers, graduates and students, he said all the associations, especially the government Siddha doctors association, are inactive and not working for the growth of the system and for the benefit of the siddha community. Ayushpathy is planning to bring all the stakeholders of Siddha into a common platform in January 2023 to chalk out strategies to promote Siddha all over India in association with Union Ayush Ministry and the state government, he added.
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