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The Ministry of Ayush is extending Ayush Grid, the sector's digital health platform, from portals into artificial intelligence services for Ayurveda and the wider Ayush sector.
Six AI assistants are named: the MAISP Chatbot, the ARP Research Assistant, the eLMS Chatbot, the e-CHARAK Chatbot, Yoga Saarthi and Nivesh Saarthi.
An Ayush use case, 'AI-driven Decision Support for Ayurveda: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach', featured in the AI Impact Casebook on Health released with the WHO at the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026.
Through the Digital India Bhashini Division, Ayush Grid portals are now available in the 22 scheduled languages of India.
Build a single Ayush-centric digital health platform and a uniform IT backbone for the whole sector.
Key: Created by the Ministry of Ayush in 2018. It grew out of earlier digital assets including the Ayush Research Portal and the NAMASTE portal, and now carries the Ministry's AI assistants and its Bhashini-enabled multilingual portals.
Standardise terminologies and national morbidity codes for Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani so that Ayush electronic health records become comparable and usable.
Key: Launched on 17 October 2017, on the second National Ayurveda Day. It uses dual coding alongside WHO ICD-10 and ICD-11, and its work fed into the traditional medicine module of ICD-11. Note the name clash: this is not the NAMASTE scheme for sanitation workers run by a different ministry.
Expand access to Ayush services through more hospitals and dispensaries, assured availability of Ayush drugs and trained manpower.
Key: Launched on 15 September 2014 under the Ministry of Ayush and implemented through the States.
Build India's AI compute, datasets, skilling and application ecosystem.
Key: Approved in March 2024 with an outlay of Rs 10,372 crore across 2024-29 under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Its components include a GPU compute pool built through public-private partnership and the IndiaAI Innovation Centre; the Ayush Ministry engages with it through the IndiaAI Innovation Challenge.
Document India's codified traditional medical knowledge and stop patents being granted on it abroad.
Key: Set up by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in 2001, covering Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Yoga, as a defence against bio-piracy.
Apex research body for Ayurveda under the Ministry of Ayush, running a network of about 30 institutes. It emerged from the 1978 reorganisation of the earlier combined research council, being redesignated on 30 March 1978.
Apex autonomous Ayurveda institute under the Ministry of Ayush, set up on the AIIMS pattern as a 200-bed referral hospital offering postgraduate and PhD programmes; dedicated to the nation on 17 October 2017.
The World Health Organization's global hub for evidence, data and standards in traditional medicine; a WHO headquarters department outposted to India, established in 2022 with an Indian commitment of about US$ 250 million.
An AI design in which the model first retrieves passages from a defined document set and then answers from them, rather than from what it absorbed during training. That is what lets an Ayurveda assistant ground its answers in classical texts.
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The Ministry of Ayush's sector-wide digital health platform, created in 2018, on which its portals and AI assistants sit.
The patenting abroad of traditional knowledge or genetic resources without the source community's consent or benefit-sharing — the problem TKDL was built to counter.
An AI method that grounds generated answers in retrieved source documents rather than in training memory.