Allopathic doctors would need to have basic understanding of Ayurvedic, Homeopathy, and Siddha soon
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Mumbai: Allopathy doctors would be expected to have basic understanding of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) in order to meet the pluralistic healthcare choices of people. This is part of the revised National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 seeks re-haul of the healthcare education in terms of structure, design and duration and also calls for improvements in the quality of nursing education.
It recommended setting up a national accreditation body for nursing and other sub-streams. The NEP seeks to discourage and disband stand-alone health science universities and wants all existing stand-alone professional educational institutions will have to become multi-disciplinary institutions by 2030, either by opening new departments or by operating in clusters.
Similarly, institutions offering legal education would have to provide education in two languages, namely English and the local language, to alleviate delay in legal cases due to translation. The NEP also called for restructuring of legal education to make it globally competitive.
The new policy also seeks to ensure that Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) do not become profit-making bodies and their accounts will be audited to ensure that they turn in their surplus profit back into the institutions. The private HEI’s will be allow to determine their own fees though they will have to provide 20% of students with freeships and 30% students with scholarships as part of their social obligation.
Observing that currently, HEI’s were controlled by rigid bureaucratic norms of the affiliating University, the NEP wants higher education institutions to become independent self-governing institutions pursuing innovation and excellence. Seeking to promote Public-Private-Partnerships in higher education, the NEP said that government will provide support to educational institutions especially for securing contiguous or neighbouring lands for outstanding institutions to expand.
Indian universities will also be encouraged to set up campuses abroad while foreign universities (e.g. those from among the top 100 universities in the world) will be permitted to operate in India. It said that a legislative framework would be put in place to facilitate the entry of foreign universities and grant them special exemptions.
