Eleventh Five Year Plan

114 Eleventh Five Year PlanControl’ for establishing in-house quality control willbe provided, these units also require other infrastructurelike sophisticated packing machine, medicinalplants storage, testing facilities, other common qualitycontrol R&D facilities, and marketing assistance.Therefore 20 AYUSH industry clusters have been identifiedand an initiative for development of commonfacilities for these clusters will be made during theEleventh Five Year Plan. They will be able to set benchmarksfor quality control, packaging, testing ofmedicinal plants, brand development, and marketingdevelopment network, which are very necessary forglobalizing AYUSH industry to capture a fair share ofthe global herbal market.Drugs Quality Control3.2.26 An increased outlay will be made duringEleventh Five Year Plan for strengthening the regulatorymechanism with a view to ensure safety, control,and efficacy of AYUSH medicines as a priority area.It is also proposed to reimburse to the States expenditureincurred on testing of AYUSH drugs throughthe network of National Accreditation Board forTesting and Calibration Laboratories accredited laboratoriesin the country. This is again a high priority tostrengthen the enforcement of Drugs and CosmeticsAct in the country with regard to Ayurveda, Siddha,Unani, and Homoeopathy manufacturing units tocreate public confidence in India and abroad.Financing AYUSH3.2.27 The total Central Government investmentsin the AYUSH sector at the national level since theFirst Five Year Plan have ranged from 1% to 3% ofthe national health budget. In the States too, a smallproportion of the health budget is assigned to AYUSH.The private sector investment in AYUSH industry(Rs 8800 crore turnover) is relatively large, whilethe private investments on research and education,public health services, and community health arerelatively small. Gradually public investments forthe AYUSH sector will be increased. The additionalinvestments in AYUSH sector will not be exclusivelyput into government institutions. The governmentsector needs to be supplemented by appropriateinvestments through PPP and supported by nongovernmentinitiatives in strategic fields.3.2.28 The new initiatives will be: International Cooperationincluding global market development;support for revitalization of local health traditions;assistance to accredited AYUSH Centres of Excellencein governmental and non-governmental sector engagedin AYUSH education, drug development andscientific validation and clinical research; AYUSH andPublic Health; Cataloguing, digitization, and AYUSHIT network.3.2.29 Some of the important new initiatives forEleventh Five Year Plan are shown in Box 3.2.3.3.2.30 ZBB exercise has been done for the EleventhFive Year Plan (Annexure 3.2.4). The exercise was doneto arrive at greater convergence among schemes withsimilar objectives for improving the efficacy andefficiency of Plan spending. The total projected GBSfor the Eleventh Plan for the Department of AYUSHis Rs 3526 crore (at 2006–07 prices) and Rs 3988 crore(at current prices). Scheme-wise financial details forthe Eleventh Five Year Plan have been provided inAppendix of Volume III.Box 3.2.3Important New Initiativesduring the Eleventh Plan• Development of common drug testing and otherinfrastructure facilities for AYUSH industry clusters• Financial assistance to ASU&H Units for capacitybuilding to improve quality control and R&D• Support to centres of excellence in AYUSH education/drug development/clinical research/tertiary care• Support for validation and revitalization of local healthtraditions• Development of backward and forward linkages for insituconservation and ex-situ cultivation of medicinalplants for a sustainable ASU&H Industry• Provision of marketing and value-added services tomedicinal plant farmers• Expansion of international cooperation and exchangeprogramme with focus on global positioning ofAYUSH systems and facilitation of cooperation withother countries in the areas of AYUSH education,research, and exports