1. Gujarat Board of Ayurvedic and Unani systems of Medicine
2. The Council of Homoeopathic system of medicine
3. Naturopathy Board
4. Gujarat Ayured Vikas Mandal
5. State Ayurved Nursing Faculty
6. Co-Operative society of Dangees Medicinal Plant growers
   
   
   
   
   

(1)             Gujarat Board of Ayurvedic and Unani systems of Medicine :-

        This Board has been formed according to the provision of “ The Gujarat Medical Practitioners Act 1963.” The Board consists of 11 members including the President.  Out of these members,  5 members are elected from Part –I, and 2 members are elected from Part- II by Registered Medical  Practitioners and  the remaining  4 are nominated by the Government .This Board is formed for a duration of five years. It gets 100% grant from the Government. The powers, duties and functions of this Board are as under  :-

(a)              To Maintain the register and  the list and to provide  the registration and enlistment to  the practitioners,

(b)              To   hear and decide appeals for any decision  of  the Registrar,

(c)              To prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of the  registered and enlisted practitioners,

(d)              To reprimand a registered or enlisted practitioner, to suspend or remove him from the register or the list as the case may be, or to take such other disciplinary action against him as may be the opinion of the Board, 

(e)              To exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and function, as are either laid down in the Act or may be prescribed.

       13730 Registered Medical Practitioners are registered in Part –I and 7797 are registered in Part –II  up to 31^st March 2001.

(II) The Council of Homoeopathic system of medicine  :-

                 The Council consists of 11 members, out of which 7 are elected by the registered Homoeopath practitioners  and the remaining 4 are nominated  by the Government. This Council has a tenure of 5 years. It gets 100% grant from the Government. According to section 15 of the Homoeopathic Act 1963, following are the powers, duties and functions of the Council.

(a)              To maintain the register and the list and to provide for the registration of practitioners or the entry of their names in the list,

(b)              To hear and decide appeals  for any decision of the Register,

(c)              To reprimand a register or an enlisted practitioner or to suspend or     remove him from the register or the list, as the case may be, or to take such other disciplinary action against him as  the opinion of the Council may  be,

(d)              To hold examinations and to take all necessary arrangements for such examinations,

(e)              To prescribe the courses of the training and study, the curriculum and the syllabus leading to the examinations held by the Council and to charge fees for such examinations,

(f)                To grant degrees, diplomas and marks of honour,

(g)              To award stipends, scholarships, medals, prizes and other rewards,

(h)              To recognize institutions for the purpose of giving instruction for the course leading to the examinations held by the Council or to cancel such recognition,

(i)                 To recommend  the inclusion of any degree, diploma, certificate or award in the First Schedule or to recommend the removal of any degree, diploma, certificate or award from the First Schedule,

(j)                To prepare, publish and prescribe text books and to publish statements of prescribed courses of the study,

(k)               To provide the maintenance of an adequate standard of proficiency for the practice of the Homoeopathic system of medicines,

(l)                 To found and maintain libraries,

(m)             To recommend and promote schemes for post graduate training and research in Homoeopathy,

(n)              To provide for the inspection of recognized institutions and to require from such institutions such information as the Council   may deem necessary,

(o)              To provide for the inspection of any other institutions giving instructions for any of the qualifications  included in the First Schedule,

(p)              To appoint boards of studies and committees consisting of persons who may or may not be the members of the Council and to lay down the constitution, the duties and the functions of such boards and committees,

(q)              To found Homoeopahic educational institutions or hospital or dispensaries,

(r)                To appoint the officers and servants of the Council, other than the Registrar, and the inspectors, moderators, examiners or visitors,

(s)               To exercise such other powers and perform such other duties  and functions as are laid down in this Act and as may be prescribed . 

At  present, 5123 qualified practitioners are registered in Part – I, while in Part –II ,  42   unqualified practitioners are registered .

(III)   Naturopathy Board  :-         

         This Board has been constituted by a Govt. Resolution wherein the Health Minister is the Chairman of the Board. The members of this Board are nominated through Govt. on the basis of their qualifications, knowledge and contribution to the field of Naturopathy. Formulation of this Board is aimed at the popularity and the propagation of this system of treatment and to bring forth to the Govt. the potentialities for the possible establishment of educational institutions for Naturopathy.

(IV) Gujarat Ayured Vikas Mandal :-

   Gujarat  Ayurved Vikas Mandal is sponsored by the  State Government since 1965. The Mandal is a body registered under Public Trust Act and also under Societies Registration Act, 1860.

The main object of the Mandal is to plan the activities for upliftment and development of Ayurved. Some of the aims and objects of the Mandal narrated in the Constitution are as under : -

1.      To promote and encourage the knowledge and practice of Ayurved.

2.      To undertake and develop teaching of Ayurveda  by taking over existing institutions and new educational institutions of Ayurveda.

3.      To establish, manage and render financial assistance to Pharmacies, Herbariums, Libraries, Museums, and similar institutions for the study and research in Ayurveda.

4.      To prepare, print and publish books, periodicals and other literature in furtherance of the objects of the Mandal and to render financial assistant to the periodicals of Ayurveda.

5.      To award prizes, and grants scholarships in furtherance of the object of the Mandal.

6.      To start and maintain Ayurvedic dispensaries, hospitals and stores for sale of Ayurvedic medicines as well as row materials necessary for preparing Ayurvedic medicines.

7.      To establish, maintain and render financial help to the institutions for the development and uplift of Ayurved.

8.      To undertake by itself or in co-operation with others ,activities necessary for the fulfilment of the objects of the Vikas Mandal.    

9.      To take over the state Ayurvedic pharmacy for the Ayurvedic medicinal requirement of the state , E.S.I. and Panchayat dispensaries and to put pharmacy on sound production capacity.

Having a tenure of  5 years, this Mandal of 11 Members  is formed through Govt. Notification. Both the members and the mechanism of the Mandal are worthy encominum. The members usually possess a huge prestige and sense of service for the cause of Ayurved. The Mandal is always busy with the production of genuine  and classical herbal medicines. These medicines are produced at Mandal’s pharmacy at Junagadh and at Ahmedabad. Moreover, the Mandal has its own Medical stores and dispensaries. As mentioned earlier, the Government has decided to  purchase 70 % of total consumption of medicine at Govt. Ayurved hospitals and dispensaries.

Mandal's Head office is situated at Ahmedabad .Its address  is :

Gujarat Ayurved Vikas Mandal,

Gujarat Ayurved Bhavan,

Opp. Income-tax office,

Ahmedabad- 380 014.Gram : " NIRAMAYA "

Telephone no. 7542390 , 7543039

Pharmacies are at......

(1) Gujarat Ayurved Vikas Mandal Pharmacy,

    " Grishmkunj "

     Nr. Joshipura Railway Crossing .

     Junagadh  362 002. Telephone No.: 620042.

  (2 ) Gujarat Ayurved Vikas Mandal Pharmacy,

         Shade No 143, Gujarat vepari mahamandal

        Audyogic Sahkari Vasahat, Odhav

       Ahmedabad Telephone No: 2890820.

(V) State Ayurved Nursing Faculty : -

 A Faculty is constituted  by the Resolution of Panchayats and Health Department in 1967 for  conducting  the examinations of the Ayurved Nursing students. Director , Indian Systems of Medicine & Homoeopathy  is the President of the Faculty and an Administrative officer  Cl-1 of Directorate acts as the Secretary of this faculty by virtue of  post. The tenure of this Faculty is  3  years.

(VI ) Co-Operative society of Dangees Medicinal Plant growers :-

      A National Seminar on Medicinal Plants & Traditional Medical Knowledge and Work shop on Management of Incurable Diseases like AIDS  was held on February 12-13, 1999 at Saputara ( Dangs ). It was recommended that concrete steps should be taken   to create a co-operative infrastructure to encourage the traditional knowledge of the local tribals and availability of genuine Jadibutties ( herbs) from the forest of  Dangs. The Forest Department, Co-operative Department and Health Department along with the Collector,  District Dangs, started their efforts to frame the Co-operative societies for the same. The sanction in principle had been given by the Govt. to register such Societies.