While a full budget for 2024-25 will be announced after the new government is formed following the Lok Sabha elections later this year, the interim Budget allocation for the Ayush Ministry has been increased to Rs 3,712.49 crore for 2024-25 from Rs 3,000 crore (revised estimates) in 2023-24, recording a rise of 23.74 per cent.
The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) has been allocated Rs 14.63 crore while the Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) allocated Rs 20.80 crore.
The autonomous bodies have been allocated Rs 1,848.40 crore, of which Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences has been given Rs 413.54 crore, Central Council for Research in Homeopathy Rs 144 crore, Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine Rs 228.05 crore and the All India Institute of Ayurveda has got Rs 227.20 crore.
The Government has been stressing on evidence-based research through Ayush research.
At the initiative of the National Medicinal Plants Board, 32 State Medicinal Plants Boards in 27 states and five Union territories have been constituted for providing impetus to cultivation of high priority medicinal plants for domestic consumption as well as export.