Section 13:
Functions of Institute.
With a view to the promotion of the objects specified in section 12, the
Institute may--
(a) provide for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Ayurveda, including Pharmacy;
(b) provide facilities for research in the various branches of Ayurveda including Pharmacy;
(c) prescribe courses and curricula for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Ayurveda
including Pharmacy;
(d) notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, establish and
maintain--
(i) one or more Ayurveda medical colleges with different Departments including department
of Swasthvritta and such other departments as may deemed to be necessary for scientific
validation of Ayurveda, implementing Ayurveda principles and theories in public health and
further expansion of Ashtanga Ayurveda with the help of modern scientific advances sufficiently
staffed and equipped to undertake undergraduate and postgraduate Ayurveda education including
Pharmacy;
(ii) one or more well-equipped hospitals;
(iii) colleges for Ayurveda supporting staffs such as nurses, Pharmacists, Panchakarma
technicians or therapists and such other allied disciplines of Ayurveda sufficiently staffed and
equipped for training such students;
(iv) rural and urban health organisations which will form centres for the field training in
Ayurveda and for research into community health problems; and
(v) other institutions for the training of different types of health workers, such as
physiotherapists, occupational therapists and Ayurvedic medical technicians of various kinds;
(e) train teachers for the different Ayurveda colleges in India;
(f) hold examinations (including for admissions) and grant degrees, diplomas and other academic
distinctions and titles in undergraduate and postgraduate education in Ayurveda and Pharmacy as may
be laid down in the regulations;
(g) institute, and appoint persons to professorships, readerships, lectureships and posts of any
description in accordance with regulations;
(h) receive grants from the Government and gifts, donations, benefactions, bequests and transfers
of properties, both movable and immovable, from donors, benefactors, testators or transferors, as the
case may be;
(i) deal with any property belonging to, or vested in, the Institute in any manner which is
considered necessary for promoting the objects specified in section 12;
(j) demand and receive such fees and other charges as may be specified by regulations;
(k) construct quarters for its staff and allot such quarters to the staff in accordance with such
regulations as may be made in this behalf;
(l) establish, maintain and manage halls and hostels for the residence of students;
(m) supervise and control the residence and regulate the discipline of students of the Institute and
to make arrangements for promoting their health, general welfare and cultural and corporate life;
(n) institute and award fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions, prizes and medals;
(o) borrow money, with the prior approval of the Central Government, on the security of the
property of the Institute;
(p) to perform all such things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of all
or any of the objects of the Institute.