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The Ministry of Ayush has established an Ayush Vertical under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), jointly with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, as the institutional mechanism for integrating Ayush into public health programmes, medical education and hospitals.
Integrated Ayush Departments now operate at Safdarjung Hospital, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi; NCISM's new MBBS internship module gives interns structured exposure to Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha.
The Ministry funds nine national institutions — including AIIMS, IIT Delhi, IISc Bengaluru, NIMHANS and Tata Memorial Centre — as Centres of Excellence for Ayurveda-modern medicine research under the Ayurswasthya Yojana.
Mainstream Ayush into healthcare, strengthen Ayush education and quality control
Key: Launched 2014; funds Ayush infrastructure/equipment/medicines at co-located health facilities, with NHM funding the Ayush human-resource component
Capacity building and integrative Ayurveda research
Key: Running since 2021-22; ABIHR (3rd component, from 2023-24) funds high-end research integrating Ayurveda with basic sciences
Statutory regulator for Ayurveda/Unani/Siddha education; its 2022 regulation permits up to 40% modern-medicine content in the Ayurveda syllabus
Apex Ayush research body running Ayurveda-modern medicine integration studies, including joint centres with AIIMS institutions (Ayush-ICMR AI-ACIHR)
200-bed tertiary Ayurveda-modern integrative hospital with an International Collaborative Centre for global Ayurveda research
Establishes NCISM as the statutory regulator for Indian systems of medicine, replacing the Central Council of Indian Medicine set up under the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970; became fully effective 11 June 2021
GS Paper 2 > Governance > Health Integration Policy
Recurring Parliament reply theme on Ayush mainstreaming
A Central Sector Scheme (since 2021-22) with three components — capacity building/CME, research & innovation, and Ayurveda Biology Integrated Health Research (ABIHR) — to integrate Ayurveda with modern science.