- Parliament approved two bills replacing ordinances related to the Central Council of Homoeopathy and the Indian Medicine Central Council.
- The Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2020 seeks to further extend the time to form the Central Council of Homeopathy by a year, after exhausting two years for the purpose.
- The Indian Medicine Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2020 seeks a year’s time to reconstitute the central council and provides for a board of directors to exercise its powers in the interim period.
- The Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill seeks to amend the Homoeopathy Central Council Act, 1973 and replaces the Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020, promulgated on April 24.
- The 1973 Act was amended in 2018 to provide for the supersession of the Central Council of Homoeopathy.
- The council was required to be reconstituted within a year from the date of its supersession.
- This provision was amended in 2019 to require the reconstitution of the council in two years.
- In the interim period, the Centre constituted a board of governors to exercise the powers of the council.
- The bill seeks to amend the Act to increase the period for the supersession of the council from two to three years.
- The Indian Medicine Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2020 amends the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970.
- The Act provides for the constitution of a central council, which regulates the education and practice of the Indian medicine system including ayurveda, yoga and, naturopathy.
