New Delhi, March 23: The Ministry of Ayush and the Indian Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), the ministry of tourism, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the goal of promoting the medical values of ayurveda and other traditional systems of medicine in terms of travel and collaborating to improve them. Sarbananda Sonowal, the minister of Ayush, revealed the information and objective regarding this collaboration in her written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
Earlier, the government had taken an initiative to promote medical tourism in the country under the name “heal in India,” and to develop and take one step ahead for the heal in India portal, the ministry of health and family welfare and the ministry of Ayush were both working together with the center for development of advanced computing and services export promotion council (CDACSEPC).
In which the Ministry of Ayush has developed a central sector scheme named the Champion Service Sector Scheme, under this scheme, financial assistance will be given to private investors to make specialty hospitals or day-care centers as per the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) Act 2020 or NCH Act 2020 in the years 2021–22.
The ministry of health and family welfare also organized chintan shivir with the slogan “heal in India and heal by India,” as well as a round table plenary session on health in India at the global Ayush investment and innovation summit in Gandhinagar.
Not only the ministry of Ayush but also the ministry of tourism have collaborated with the ministries of health and family welfare, commerce, and external affairs, and the ministries of civil and aviation to generate the national level strategy for promotion of medical importance and most prominently in terms of travel.