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 32: National Register and State Register of Indian System of Medicine.
    (1) The Board of Ethics and Registration for Indian System of Medicine shall maintain a National Register containing the name, address, all recognised qualifications possessed by a licensed medical practitioner of the Indian System of Medicine and such other particulars as may be specified by regulations.
     (2) The National Register shall be maintained in such form, including in electronic form and in such manner as may be specified by regulations.
     (3) The manner in which any name or qualification may be added to, or removed from, the National Register and the grounds for removal thereof, shall be such as may be specified by the regulations.
     (4) The National Register shall be made available to the public by placing it on the website of the Board of Ethics and Registration for Indian System of Medicine.
     (5) Every State Medical Council shall maintain and regularly update the State Register in the specified electronic format and supply a physical copy of the same to the Board of Ethics and Registration for Indian System of Medicine within three months of the commencement of this Act.
     (6) The Board of Ethics and Registration for Indian System of Medicine shall ensure electronic synchronization of the National Register and the State Register in such a manner that any change in one such register is automatically reflected in the other register.
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