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NCISM grants permission to 31 new Ayurveda Medical Colleges in AY 2025-26
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Gireesh Babu, New Delhi
November 21 , 2025
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The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) has granted Letter of Intent (LOI) or Letter of Permission (LOP) to a total of 31 entities till November 19, 2025 to establish new Ayurveda Medical Colleges during the academic year 2025-26 to conduct undergraduate courses adding a total of over 2,600 seats to the existing Under Graduate (UG) Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) seats.
The Commission has also denied permission to 17 Ayurveda Colleges and allowed permanent withdrawal of permission to one college during the academic year 2025-26, till early November, 2025, according to official data.
The new institution is in addition to the already approved 536 institutes to conduct undergraduate, postgraduate education in Ayurveda system during the academic year 2025-26.
According to information from the NCISM, 21 institutions from Maharashtra, four private institutions from Madhya Pradesh, and one each from Karnataka, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh were issued with LOI and LOP between June 2025 to November 19, 2025.
These new approvals would add around 2,620 more UG (BAMS) seats to the existing UG seats of around 40,000 permitted across in around 536 institutions for the Academic Year 2025-26, as on November 19, 2025.
The highest number of UG colleges for Ayurveda are in Maharashtra, followed by Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh, according to data from the NCISM.
In PG courses also, Maharashtra has the highest number of institutes, followed by Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Kerala.
The increase in number of medical professionals in the Ayush segment, including Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy, is a step towards the government's efforts to support healthcare services from these systems of medicines across the country, according to experts.
Under the National Ayush Mission, from the Ministry of Ayush, States and Union Territory (UT) Governments are being supported for implementation of eight structured Ayush Public Health Programmes in different parts of the country to address the problem of masses as per the potentials of Ayush health care systems by providing preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative health care as standalone or add on to conventional interventions for different diseases including lifestyle disorders.
These Public Health Programmes have provisions of comprehensive quality assured Ayurveda, Unani, Homoeopathic therapies for moderate and severe cases at second level referral facilities such as Ayush Hospitals/Teaching Ayush Hospitals as per the provisions of NAM guidelines.
As per the proposals received from States and UT Governments through their State Annual Action Plans (SAAPs), a total of 12,500 units of existing Ayush dispensaries and sub health centres have been approved to be upgraded as Ayush Health and Wellness Centres now renamed as Ayushman Arogya Mandir (Ayush) in the States/UTs.
While education in Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani systems of medicines were earlier regulated by the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) and the education under the system of Homoeopathy was regulated through Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH), in 2020, the Central government enacted the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) Act, 2020 for Indian System of Medicine, and repealed the Indian Medicine Central Council (IMCC) Act, 1970.
Similarly, the National Commission for Homoeopathy (NCH) Act, 2020 was enacted for Homoeopathy, and repealed the Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH) Act, 1973. Consequently, the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) and the National Commission for Homoeopathy (NCH) were constituted to regulate education and practices in these systems of medicines.
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