Ayurvedic Health Service (Amendment) Bill passed in WB

The West Bengal assembly today passed the 'West Bengal State Ayurvedic Health Service (Amendment) Bill-2015', even as the opposition Left Front demanded the bill to be referred to the Select Committee.
Speaking about the bill, minister of state for AYUSH, Health and Family Welfare Department, Ashish Banerjee, said the posts in the cadre of the West Bengal Ayurvedic Education Service and the West Bengal Ayurvedic Health Service would now be filled up through the West Bengal Health Recruitment Board.
Recruitment to all teaching and administrative posts in the West Bengal Ayurvedic Education Service and all basic grade and administrative posts in the West Bengal Ayurvedic Health Service was so far been made through the West Bengal Public Service Commission.

The West Bengal Health Recruitment Board was set up recently to make all necessary recruitments to different posts under the state Department of Health and Family Welfare.
The Bill was passed by 97-43 votes, even as the opposition LF and Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) members felt transparency in the entire recruitment process would be lost with the Bill coming into force.
The Congress members were not present in the House as they had walked out before the Bill was moved protesting against a different issue.

Stating that units of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) would be set up in all districts, the minister said AYUSH units would come up initially in the districts of Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, West Midnapore, Birbhum, Nadia, South 24-Parganas and North 24-Parganas.

A 50-bed AYUSH hospital would also come up at Alipurduar and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee would lay its foundation soon.
Stating that this mode of treatment would benefit people, the minister added the companies manufacturing AYUSH medicines have assured the state government to make necessary recruitment from AYUSH-related institutes.