New Delhi: Prime Minster Narendra Modi today said that the government has set a target of opening 12,500 Ayush centres across India, 4,000 of which will be set up this year.
Speaking at Yoga Awards ceremony here, he also stressed for the need to create a homogeneous system by creating an ‘Ayush grid’ on the lines of one nation, one tax and one nation, one mobility card. He said this will remove silos in the area of Ayush. “We are opening 1.5 lakh health, wellness centres,” he added.
The Prime Minister also pitched for linking technology with tradition in the practice of Ayush medicine. He said the government was working toward bringing in more professionals in the field of Ayush and necessary steps are being taken to that effect.
“Enough civility in public life”
Earlier in the day, Modi said that while there may be differences between individuals and organisations, there should be space in public life for ‘differing streams’ to listen to each other’s point of view.
Addressing a news conclave in Kochi via a video link from here, Modi said that there should be continuous dialogue in society irrespective of differing views.
“We need not have to agree on everything but there must be enough civility in public life for differing streams to be able to hear each other’s point of view.”
“Usually, it is believed that public figures prefer to be on forums whose thought process matches with the person’s own world view. Because there is a lot of comfort in being among such people.”
Of course, I also cherish being among such surroundings but at the same time, I believe there must be a constant and continuous dialogue between individuals and organisations irrespective of one’s thought process,” he said.
He also said that for many years, a culture was perpetrated in which aspiration became a bad word. He said doors opened depending on ones surname or contacts. “Success depended on whether you belonged to an Old Boy’s club. Big cities, big institutions & big families this is all that mattered,” the PM said.
He said that the economic culture of ‘License Raj and Permit Raj struck at the heart of individual ambitions’ but India was changing for the better. “This is an India where the surnames of the youth do not matter. What matters is their ability to make their own name,” he said.