Act Number: 14

Act Name: The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Act, 2020

Year: 2020

Enactment Date: 2020-09-20

Long Title: An Act to provide for a medical education system that improves access to quality and affordable medical education, ensures availability of adequate and high quality medical professionals of Indian System of Medicine in all parts of the country; that promotes equitable and universal healthcare that encourages community health perspective and makes services of such medical professionals accessible and affordable to all the citizens; that promotes national health goals; that encourages such medical professionals to adopt latest medical research in their work and to contribute to research; that has an objective periodic and transparent assessment of medical institutions and facilitates maintenance of a medical register of Indian System of Medicine for India and enforces high ethical standards in all aspects of medical services; that is flexible to adapt to the changing needs and has an effective grievance redressal mechanism and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Ayush

Department:

Section 30: Criteria for approving or disapproving scheme.
    While approving or disapproving a scheme under section 29, the Medical Assessment and Rating Board for Indian System of Medicine, or the Commission, as the case may be, shall take into consideration the following criteria, namely:--
         (a) adequacy of infrastructure and financial resources;
         (b) whether adequate academic faculty, non-teaching staff, and other necessary facilities have been provided to ensure proper functioning of medical institution or would be provided within the time-limit specified in the scheme;
         (c) whether adequate hospital facilities have been provided or would be provided within the timelimit specified in the scheme;
         (d) such other factors as may be prescribed:
         Provided that, subject to the previous approval of the Central Government, the criteria may be relaxed for the medical institutions which are set up in such areas as may be specified by the regulations.
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