Women Form 43% of Ayush Services Workforce: RIS Report

The correct answer is 43 per cent. The assessment of the Ayush services sector puts the share of women in the sector's total workforce at 43 per cent, and notes that the share rises past half in several organised segments. Option C, 53 per cent, is the figure for hospitals alone, not for the whole sector, so it is a segment number rather than the overall one. Option D, 63 per cent, matches no reported segment either; the highest segment share reported is over 60 per cent, recorded in spas and wellness resorts. Option A, 33 per cent, understates the finding and appears nowhere in the assessment. Candidates should hold the overall number apart from the segment numbers: 53 per cent in hospitals, 57 per cent in day-care centres and 58 per cent in educational institutes, against 43 per cent for the sector taken as a whole.

The correct answer is standalone clinics. They remain the biggest revenue-generating segment of the Ayush services sector, bringing in an estimated US$16.21 billion, which works out to 43.9 per cent of the sector's revenue. Option B, day-care centres, comes second with about US$10.13 billion; taken together the two segments account for more than 70 per cent of sector revenue, but day-care centres on their own stay well behind clinics. Option A, hospitals, is reported for its workforce composition, where women hold 53 per cent of posts, and for the role of foreign patients in its revenue, but it is not named the largest earner. Option D, spas and wellness resorts, is the segment with the highest share of women at over 60 per cent, which is a workforce statistic and not a revenue one. Note also that among the individual systems, Ayurveda is the largest at US$17.73 billion.

The correct answer is RIS. The Ayush Service Sector Report is a study by RIS and was brought out on Ayurveda Day 2026. It is the source of the sector's headline numbers: a size of US$36.92 billion in FY2024-25, a compound annual growth rate of 16.91 per cent since FY2022-23, about 1.76 million livelihoods supported, and a projection of US$216-318 billion by 2047. Option A, NITI Aayog, is the government's policy think tank and publishes many indices, but it is not credited with this study. Option C, the Indian Council of Medical Research, is the apex body for biomedical research and did not author it. Option D, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, runs national laboratories in industrial and scientific research and is likewise unconnected to this report. For the examination, pair the report's name with RIS and with Ayurveda Day 2026.

The correct answer is US$36.92 billion. That is the estimated size of the Ayush services economy in FY2024-25, after growth at a 16.91 per cent compound annual rate since FY2022-23, and it is the base from which the sector is projected to reach US$216-318 billion by 2047. Option A, US$16.21 billion, is the revenue of one segment only, the standalone clinics, which is 43.9 per cent of the sector total and so cannot be the whole. Options B and D, US$26.92 billion and US$46.92 billion, are near misses placed around the real figure to test whether the number has been learnt precisely; neither appears in the assessment. Aspirants should also keep in mind the related figures: US$10.13 billion for day-care centres, US$17.73 billion for Ayurveda as a system, and US$1.77 billion earned through Medical Value Travel in the same year.