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YUGMARG NEWSPAPER
|14-06-2025
A recent ruling of the Delhi High Court raises certain puzzling questions. The court declared the appointment of Vaidya Jayant Yeshwant Deopujari as chairperson of the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine illegal.
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This was because Mr Deopujari had a PhD degree but did not have the post-graduate degree in Indian medicine as stipulated by the NCISM Act. A chairperson of the Commission requires a post-graduate degree in the subject, not a PhD. It may be that Mr Deopujari went straight into PhD after his graduate degree. The Delhi High Court said that PhD is a research degree and is awarded for research in a particular subject without any fixed syllabus or standards of judgment as in an examination whereas a post-graduate degree is awarded after passing a fixed course. The court was responding to a petition brought by two former presidents of the Central Council of Indian Medicine. The Supreme Court has stayed the ruling and will look
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