MoU signed will be instrumental for leveraging technical support from MeitY in the Ayush Grid project of the Ministry of Ayush
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Ministry of Ayush and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for providing technical support to the Ministry of Ayush for the digitalisation of the Ayush Sector under the Ayush Grid project for three years. This MoU is the continuation of the earlier MoU, which was signed in the year 2019.
Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ayush and Shri Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary MeitY signed MoU on behalf of both the Ministries. It was decided that both the ministries will continue to work in collaboration and MeitY along with organisations under MeitY will extend all technical support required for the Ayush Grid project including the adoption of emerging technologies.
Ministry of Ayush has conceptualised ‘Ayush Grid’ Project, as part of the Digital India Program, which leverages ‘Information and Technology’ to transform operational efficiency, improve service delivery and enhance the quality of services. The Ayush Grid platform is envisaged to be the IT backbone; allowing integration of all stakeholders and functions/ services related to Ayush systems of health care. From a user’s perspective, Ayush Grid is the proposed central IT platform offering multiple IT services for all systems of medicines under Ayush viz.
Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Homeopathy across functional areas, namely, healthcare delivery, education, research, capacity building, drug licensing and standardisation with media outreach.
As per the earlier signed MoU, organisations under MeitY like NeGD supported for the development of AyushSanjivani mobile application, Monitoring dashboard, BISAG-N for the development of Ayush GIS, Ayush education related modules, DIC for development of Ayush Information Hub, website of the Ministry, Ayusoft, C-DAC for imparting training to Ayush doctors. It is pertinent to mention that NeGD and BISAG-N provided valuable inputs in the finalisation of various technical documents like technical solution design & DPR of the Project.
A High-Level Advisory Committee (HLAC), chaired by Secretary Ayush and co-chaired by Secretary MeitY was constituted to provide advisory inputs on the Ayush Grid project. A working group was also constituted under the chairmanship of J Satyanarayana (Former Secretary MeitY& Chairman UIDAI) with other experts from NITI Aayog, NHA, MeitY etc. for giving expert inputs on the right architecture, identify core building blocks, leveraging development under ABDM, understand requirement of building the public-private ecosystem and various technical and strategy matters for Ayush Grid project. This helped Ministry to shape the technical construct of the project.
MoU signed will be instrumental for leveraging technical support from MeitY in the Ayush Grid project of the Ministry of Ayush.
