{"id":18929,"date":"2024-01-04T09:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T03:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18929"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:09:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:39:56","slug":"smart-2-0-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/smart-2-0-program\/","title":{"rendered":"SMART 2.0 program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About SMART 2.0 program<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Scope for Mainstreaming Ayurveda Research among Teaching professionals (SMART) program promotes\u00a0robust clinical studies in priority areas of\u00a0Ayurveda with Ayurveda academic institutions\/hospitals across the country through mutual collaboration.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0objective\u00a0of \u2018SMART 2.0\u2019 is to generate a tangible evidence to demonstrate\u00a0efficacy and safety of Ayurveda\u00a0interventions using interdisciplinary research methods and translating it into public health care.<\/li>\n<li>The study aims at safety, tolerability and adherence to Ayurveda formulations in the priority research areas of\u00a0Bal Kasa,\u00a0malnutrition, insufficient lactation, Abnormal Uterine Bleeding, Osteoporosis in post-menopausal women and Diabetes Mellitus (DM) II.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is CCRAS?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an autonomous body of the\u00a0Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga &amp; Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy), Government of India.<\/li>\n<li>It is an\u00a0apex body in India for the\u00a0formulation, coordination, development and promotion of research\u00a0on scientific lines in Ayurveda and Sowa-Rigpa system of medicine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about National Commission for Indian System of Medicine<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0statutory body constituted under NCISM Act, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>An Act to provide for a medical education system that improves access to quality and affordable medical education, ensures availability of adequate and high quality medical professionals of Indian System of Medicine in all parts of the country.<\/li>\n<li>Composition:\u00a0It consists of\u00a029 members, appointed by the central government. A Search Committee will recommend names to the central government for the post of Chairperson, part time members, and presidents of the four autonomous boards set up under the NCISM.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Functions\n<ul>\n<li>Framing policies for regulating medical institutions and medical professionals of Indian System of Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Assessing the requirements of healthcare related human resources and infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring compliance by the State Medical Councils of Indian System of Medicine of the regulations made under the Bill<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring coordination among the autonomous boards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Ayurveda?<\/h3>\n<p>The ancient Indian medical system, also known as Ayurveda, is based on ancient writings that rely on a \u201cnatural\u201d and holistic approach to physical and mental health. Ayurvedic medicine is one of the world&#8217;s oldest medical systems and remains one of India&#8217;s traditional health care systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1992696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>SMART 2.0\u2019 launched for Ayurveda Teaching Professionals<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMART 2.0 program promotes robust clinical studies in priority areas of Ayurveda with Ayurveda academic institutions\/hospitals across the country through mutual collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}