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Under the National Ayush Mission, 12,500 existing Ayush dispensaries and sub health centres have been upgraded and operationalised as Ayushman Arogya Mandir (Ayush), formerly called Ayush Health and Wellness Centres.
Rs 6,40,699.24 lakh — about Rs 6,407 crore — has been released to States and UTs under the Mission between 2014-15 and 2025-26, with Uttar Pradesh receiving the largest share.
Rajasthan has the largest number of functional Ayushman Arogya Mandir (Ayush) at 2,019, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 800 and Himachal Pradesh at 761.
Quality in Ayush education is regulated by the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine and the National Commission for Homoeopathy, established under their respective Acts of 2020.
The Government has notified 23 September as the annual date for Ayurveda Day; the 10th edition was observed on that date in 2025 with All India Institute of Ayurveda, Goa as nodal institute.
Strengthen Ayush infrastructure and service delivery across States and UTs
Key: A Centrally Sponsored Scheme implemented through State and UT Governments, with funds released against State Annual Action Plans. It supports new Ayush colleges where government teaching institutions are inadequate, 50, 30 and 10 bedded integrated Ayush hospitals, upgradation of standalone government Ayush hospitals and dispensaries, construction of buildings for existing or new dispensaries, and operationalisation of Ayushman Arogya Mandir (Ayush)
Build a holistic wellness model based on Ayush principles inside the public health system
Key: 12,500 existing dispensaries and sub health centres upgraded, offering preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative care alongside OPD services — including Prakriti Parikshan, yoga activities at facility and community level, and awareness on common medicinal plants, delivered in a team-based approach involving ASHAs
Maintain standards at upgraded facilities
Key: NABH assessment, third-party review and visits by Central teams, with States advised on training and capacity building of the AAM (Ayush) team, referral linkages with other public health facilities and involvement of field-level workers
Institutionalise Ayurveda as a nationwide movement for preventive healthcare and public awareness
Key: 23 September has been notified as the fixed annual date; the 10th edition in 2025 carried the theme 'Ayurveda for People and Planet', conferred the National Dhanwantari Ayurveda Awards, and was observed in more than 150 countries under a whole-of-government approach
Establishes the NCISM as the regulator for education in Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha, through which the Ministry of Ayush works to raise the quality of medical education in these systems
Establishes the NCH as the corresponding regulator for homoeopathy education
Because public health and hospitals fall to the States, the Centre's role runs through the Centrally Sponsored National Ayush Mission and State Annual Action Plans rather than through direct establishment of institutions
Conventional primary care is largely reactive: a patient presents with a complaint and is treated for it. The Ayush wellness-centre model is built around a different starting point. Prakriti Parikshan is an assessment of an individual's constitutional type in Ayurveda, and it is used to give lifestyle, diet and yoga advice before disease appears rather than after. That is why the release describes the upgraded centres as covering preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative care together, and why yoga sessions and medicinal-plant awareness are run at community level and not only inside the facility. The delivery choice matters as much as the content: these services are provided in a team-based approach that involves ASHAs, the same field workers who already carry the national health programmes into households. The claim reported by States is that footfall rose after upgradation, precisely because the centres began offering something beyond an OPD consultation.
Simple Analogy: It shifts the clinic from being a repair shop to being a service centre with a maintenance schedule.
Administers the National Ayush Mission and works through NCISM and NCH to regulate education in Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy
Regulator for education in the Indian systems of medicine, established under the Act of 2020
Regulator for homoeopathy education, established under the Act of 2020
Nodal institute for the 10th Ayurveda Day celebrations held on 23 September 2025
The renaming of Ayush Health and Wellness Centres to Ayushman Arogya Mandir (Ayush) mirrors the renaming of Health and Wellness Centres across the wider Ayushman Bharat architecture
Public health is a State subject, which is why the Centre acts through a Centrally Sponsored Scheme and State Annual Action Plans rather than by setting up institutions itself
NCISM and NCH, both created in 2020, belong to the same wave of commission-based regulators that replaced older council structures in Indian medical education
Ayurveda Day was observed in more than 150 countries in 2025, tying traditional medicine to India's cultural diplomacy
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General Awareness > Government Schemes and Important Days
General Awareness > Government Schemes
Ayush schemes and important days recur in SSC and Railway general awareness, and regulatory commissions appear in UPSC Prelims
Ayushman Arogya Mandir (Ayush) — the renamed Ayush Health and Wellness Centre, upgraded from an existing dispensary or sub health centre
Assessment of an individual's constitutional type in Ayurveda, used to guide preventive lifestyle and dietary advice
National Commission for Indian System of Medicine, the regulator for Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha education established under the 2020 Act
National Commission for Homoeopathy, established under the 2020 Act of the same name
The proposal through which a State or UT seeks funds under the National Ayush Mission
The accreditation body whose assessment is used to assure quality at upgraded Ayush centres