Government will Soon Make Compulsory Registration for Ayush Practitioners
BELAGAVI: The Karnataka government will soon make registration
compulsory for Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani Naturopathy, Siddha, Unani and yoga
(Ayush) practitioners to crack down on quacks.
Health and
family welfare minister KR Ramesh Kumar tabled the Karnataka Ayurvedic,
Naturopathy, Siddha, Unani and Yoga Practitioners Registration and
Medical Practitioners Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) Bill, 2016 in
the legislative assembly on Wednesday seeking to regulate these
practitioners. Registered practitioners will be issued a duplicate ID
card which should be compulsorily displayed in their clinics.
The
move also comes in the absence of proper regulatory mechanisms.
According to the bill, the Ayush practitioners may apply for
registration by paying a fee of Rs 500. Those who have already got
registered under various other laws should also apply for provisional
and supplementary registrations.
The
practitioners, who would like to include their educational
qualification in the registration certificates, have to pay an
additional Rs 3,000, the bill said. The bill also proposes to enhance
punishment for Ayush practitioners who don't get registered. The
unregistered practitioners would be punished with a fine which may
extend to Rs 20,000 for the first offence, to a fine of Rs 2 lakh and
imprisonment of one year for the second offence and a fine of Rs 5 lakh
and imprisonment for three years for the subsequent offence.
Akka
Mahadevi Varsity: The Karnataka State Women's University in Vijayapura
will be soon renamed the Karnataka State Akka Mahadevi Women's
University. Higher education minister Basavaraj Rayaddi tabled the
Karnataka State Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2016, seeking to honour
12th century Kannada poetess Akka Mahadevi, who fought for women
empowerment. A resolution to rename the university was passed at the All
India Kannada Sahitya Sammelana at Vijayapura in 2014. The university
was established in 2003-04 to give more thrust to the overall
development of women in higher education.
New
names, old laws: Two years after Karnataka changed the name of 12
cities, it proposed to incorporate it in its various laws. After tabling
the Karnataka Alteration of Names of Certain Places Bill, 2016, law
minister T B Jayachandra said the government had issued a notification
for renaming of 12 cities in 2006 but it got approval in 2014. "Though
we got the names changed through a notification, the names of places
remain unaltered in many places," he said.
Source: Times of India
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