Ayush Department is taking efforts to position India as a leader in Ayush education across the globe, especially in the SAARC countries, by forging links with the academic bodies and setting up chairs in the foreign universities. The Department also has chalked out a number of steps to strengthen the national institutes under it.

The Department of Ayush has decided to take the help of the Indian Missions abroad to further promote the Ayush education of the country. The national institutes under the Department have been asked to work out possible collaborations with the institutes abroad, under the guidance of the Ministry of External Affairs.

The Missions would also be consulted to set up chairs in foreign universities and finalise the same on case to case basis depending on the merit and benefits. The MoUs under the ICCR Guidelines would be signed for setting up chairs and reciprocal recognition of foreign degrees in Ayush streams between India and SAARC countries.

The Director General of Central Council for Research in Unani Medicines has been entrusted the task of preparing standard MoUs and take lead role to coordinate the work on reciprocal recognition of Ayush streams with SAARC countries. Director, National Institute of Siddha, Chennai has been asked to explore the possibility of exchange programmes in Ayush education with Government of Sri Lanka.

Director of Institute of Post Graduate Teaching and Research in Ayurveda will   prepare an action plan on how the Research Councils and Institutes could work together to achieve the national objectives of better health care.

As part of the new initiatives, the national institutes had been asked to improve the quality of education to position themselves as the premier institutes in the country for the systems concerned. They should also move towards developing the hospitals attached to the Institutes, as Referral Hospitals in the concerned speciality.