Ayush Ministry Issues Skin Disorder Guidelines for Four Systems

The correct answer is Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy. The Ministry of Ayush has published a separate Standard Treatment Guidelines document for each of these four systems, and Yoga has been brought into the guidelines as an inclusion rather than as a fifth system with its own document. Option A wrongly lists Yoga and Naturopathy as systems with their own guidelines in this set. Option C and Option D bring in Sowa-Rigpa, which is indeed one of the systems under the Ayush umbrella but is not among the four for which these skin disorder guidelines have been issued. Candidates should also note that the documents were prepared by the Ayush Vertical of the Directorate General of Health Services under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and that they were released on the occasion of the 11th Ayurveda Day.

The correct answer is the 11th Ayurveda Day. The Ministry of Ayush chose this occasion to put the guidelines in the public domain, which ties the release to the ministry's own calendar of observances. Option A, World Health Day, is marked by the World Health Organization and was not the occasion here. Option B, National Doctors' Day, honours the medical profession in India but is unconnected with this release. Option D, International Yoga Day, is a natural guess because Yoga has been included in the guidelines, yet the release was not timed to it. The edition number matters for examinations, so remember that this was the eleventh observance of Ayurveda Day. The guidelines themselves address psoriasis, dermatitis, vitiligo, urticaria and dermatophytosis across Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy.

The correct answer is Shri Prataprao Jadhav, who holds independent charge of the Ministry of Ayush as Minister of State and is also Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. He said the guidelines would deepen the integration of the Ayush systems with the national healthcare framework and would support safe, effective and holistic care for common skin conditions. Option B, Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, is the Secretary of the Ministry of Ayush and spoke separately about standardisation and evidence-based practice, but he is an official and not the minister. Option C, Dr Loveneesh G. Krishna, is the Director General of Health Services and highlighted multidisciplinary collaboration. Option D names the Union Health Minister, a plausible distractor since the Directorate General of Health Services falls under the health ministry, but he is not the Ayush minister quoted here.

The correct answer is the Directorate of Ayush, Government of NCT of Delhi. Field-level validation was a notable feature of the exercise: the protocols were tried out with Medical Officers working in primary and secondary healthcare under this directorate, and the feedback they gave on how usable the protocols were in day-to-day practice was built into the final documents. Option A, the All India Institute of Ayurveda, is a major Ayurveda institution but is not named as the validation partner. Option B, the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, belongs to the group of Ayush Research Councils whose technical expertise went into drafting the guidelines, which is a different role from field validation. Option D, the National Medical Commission, regulates modern medical education and had no part in this process. The drafting itself involved classical texts, current evidence and consensus-based deliberation.