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dated May 11, 1956: Research in medicine

The Rajya Sabha, after a four-day debate on May 9, gave its approval to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences Bill as passed by the Lok Sabha. The Institute will provide under-graduate and post-graduate medical education. During the debate, members made an unsuccessful attempt to have the indigenous systems of medicine also included within the scope of the Bill. The Health Minister, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, repeated her assurance that she would do "all that lies in my power to give Ayurveda and Unani systems the help they need for their renovation or rejuvenation and research." As the Institute developed, one of the first things she was going to do was to have a chair for medicine which would include Ayurveda so that medical students might understand what Ayurveda had given in the past and what it might give in the future. The Deputy Chairman, Mr. S.V. Krishnamurthi Rao, who was in the Chair, said that if the Minister wanted to carry out her intention of confining the Institute's activities to modern medicine, a change in the wording of the relevant clause might be necessary. The Law Minister, Mr. H.V. Pataskar, intervening, said the protagonists of Ayurveda might feel happy that the Bill as it stood now would enable a future Health Minister to include Ayurveda also.

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