AYUSH Gets Major Boost With ₹185.75-Crore Annual Plan Approval
Andhra Pradesh has secured a record ₹185.75-crore AYUSH allocation for 2026-27, funding mobile medical units, dispensary upgrades, medicines and new wellness facilities.
The AYUSH sector in Andhra Pradesh is set for a major expansion with the Centre approving a record `185.75 crore annual action plan for 2026-27, the highest annual allocation to the state since the launch of the National AYUSH Mission (NAM) in 2014.
The approval follows the efforts of state health minister and BJP national leader Satya Kumar to coordinate with the Centre for enhanced funding.
The latest approval takes the total sanctioned allocation under NAM during the three years of the coalition government, from 2024-25 to 2026-27, to `434.64 crore, compared with `120.17 crore sanctioned during the preceding decade from 2014-15 to 2023-24.
The allocation has risen from `83.23 crore in 2024-25 to `165.66 crore in 2025-26 and `185.75 crore this year. In contrast, no NAM fund was allocated or released during 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 under the previous YSRC government.
A highlight of the latest plan is the deployment of 19 mobile medical units across nine Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) areas, including Rampachodavaram, Chintur, Parvathipuram and Paderu. Teams comprising AYUSH medical officers and multipurpose health workers will provide free medical examinations, medicines and health and nutrition awareness.
The plan also provides for modernisation of 64 AYUSH dispensaries at a cost of `12.80 crore, free medicines for 712 dispensaries with `22.16 crore, and `38.84 crore for strengthening AYUSH educational institutions.
Funds have been sanctioned for digitalisation of 601 dispensaries, laptops for 157 AYUSH medical officers and connectivity at 126 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs.
The plan also includes four alcohol de-addiction centres, Panchakarma and yoga facilities at four teaching hospitals, and an AYUSH Sports Medicine Centre of Excellence at Kadapa.
A special Akshi Tarpana unit and herbal Kwatha therapy unit will be established at the Dr AL Government Ayurvedic Hospital in Vijayawada. Yoga wellness centres are proposed at the state Secretariat and four major prisons, while an AYUSH clinic will be set up on the High Court premises.
The plan also supports 58 speciality wellness centres, six 50-bed integrated AYUSH hospitals, naturopathy units in NRHM dispensaries and telemedicine services.
Minister Satya Kumar thanked the Centre for approving the plan and said the government was according high priority to expanding AYUSH services. He credited chief minister Chandrababu Naidu’s vision and Centre-state coordination for strengthening of the healthcare infrastructure in Andhra Pradesh.
