Hyderabad: The formation of a separate Ayush ministry at the Centre with minister of state (independent charge) Shripad Yesso Naik at the helm is a reason to cheer, but the state of the department in Telangana is such that practitioners claim that the benefits will not reach them.
Dr Mallu Prasad, Central Council of Indian Medicine member, said, “We don’t have a commissioner or even an additional director. With the state bifurcation and lack of employees, this department is suffering the most.
We need to fill the vacant posts of professors and principals or else the colleges will not be eligible for admissions. The deadline is December 31, and there is no move to recruit due to the division process.
Education, employment and also the funds being granted for the various schemes may not be available for us due to these reasons.”
A total of 43 posts of professors are lying vacant in the two Ayurveda colleges in Telangana. The two colleges in Hyderabad and Warangal do not have professors and there are 18 posts vacant for undergraduate course and 11 for post-graduate course in Hyderabad.
As Warangal has only undergraduate course there are 14 vacancies. Similarly, 94 posts are vacant in Nizamia General Hospital and over 40 posts are vacant in Homeopathy colleges.[Source]
