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Ayurveda is a complete Science in itself. Veda is the knowledge which istime tested and the written form of shruti, oral and practical knowledge whichpupil learn from his guru and practice from generation to generation in sutraform. Ayurveda attain its name due to its completeness, regarding the life of aliving organism whether it is of plant as well as animal origin. Sutras of ayurvedaare still viable and give vision to the modern sciences after thousands of years.The modern basic sciences corrects themselves from the sutras of veda andayurveda. Every life science can develop itself on the lines of ayurveda.

Ayurveda graduate is not only a physician but can develop many skills init and open avenues for many fields of life sciences; agriculture, animal husbandry,horticulture, forestry, pharmaceutics, dietics, metallurgy and etc.

There is a need to practice and develop skills to make ayurveda national as well as global health caresystem. People need a real health care system not a system which only eradicates the disease by hook orcrook and seeing towards Ayurveda with a hope. This is the only system which is time tested, systematicand have a database of medicinal plants and minerals having its pharmacological actions explained in itslanguage. It preaches life style; Din (chrya), Ratri (chrya), Ritu (charya); explains health cautious peoplehow he should spend his day, night, different seasons in the form of diet and life style. The preaching helpsto achieve physical as well as mental health.

Panchkarma and ksharsutra therapy are the skills of ayurveda physicians and surgeons, which arevery popular among masses. There is a need to develop many other skills so that we can cure the diseases inbetter way. Diagnosis of a disease by ancient physicians, by reading the pulse and physical examination ofurine, such simple techniques can be validated and practiced so that the expenditure on diagnosis can becurtailed. Adoption of latest developments of basic sciences and information technology for diagnosis,management of disease can also be developed on the principles of ayurveda. Standardization and validationof ayurveda medicaments needs interdisciplinary approaches. We should underline the areas and developskills in our graduates and post graduates so that they can jointly work with the other disciplines of scienceswith confidence and the outcome can be beneficial for each other.

I would like to thank Vishwa Ayurveda Parishad for adoption of topic like Recent advances and skilldevelopment in Ayurveda for discussion and contributors tried to explain their point of view. Organizationis trying to bridge a gap between institutions of higher learning, research and basic learning by startingstudy circles in UG as well PG Institutions. Topics of discussion and workshops will provide a basis for theoverall development of ayurveda. This will contribute for the skill development.

Government of India is trying to popularize AYUSH globally by signing MoUs. The demand for theayurveda graduates and experts may increase many folds in the coming years. We should take the missionof skill development in ayurveda vigorously so that we can take this opportunity for the global acceptanceof ayurveda, which is our Goal.

Jai Ayurveda!- Dr. Ashwani K. Bhargava,

Professor, Deptt. Of Ras Shastra & BK, Dayanand Ayurvedic College, Jalandhar.

Founder Registrar,Guru Ravidas Ayurveda University, Punjab.

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INTRODUCTION :

Skill development in India is being much moreemphasized now days for promotion of economy andsocial well being. This is actually needed for speedydevelopment of country in global scenario. Thegovernment has come across with the Ministry ofSkill Development and Entrepreneurship (earlierDepartment of Skill Development andEntrepreneurship, first created in July 2014) and hadset up ministry in November 2014 to drive the SkillIndia agenda in a Mission Mode in order toconverge existing skill training initiatives andcombine scale and quality of skilling efforts, withspeed. The Mission has been developed to createconvergence across sectors and States in terms ofskill training activities. Further, to achieve the visionof Skilled India, the National Skill DevelopmentMission would not only consolidate and coordinateskilling efforts, but also expedite decision makingacross sectors to achieve skilling at scale with speedand standards. Seven sub-missions have beenproposed initially to act as building blocks forachieving overall objectives of the Mission. Theyare:(i) Institutional Training (ii) Infrastructure (iii)Convergence (iv) Trainers (v) Overseas Employment(vi) Sustainable Livelihoods (vii) Leveraging PublicInfrastructure. This mission has motivated everycitizen of the country to think about skilldevelopment not only in fields specified bygovernment but also their own work areas becauseskill development will not only provide theopportunity of learning but it will also developcapacity of performance of work with full efficiency.Apart from this there are enormous possibilities ofnew job creation by this skill India mission, whichwill provide jobs to the younger generation as well

SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN SHALYA TANTRA- A K Dwivedi*

e-mail : drarunbhu@gmail.com

as speed up the social well being, overall leading todevelopment of our nation.

The Ayurveda is one of the areas with immensescope of skill development in various fields withefficiency to contribute in potentials of skill Indiamission. This indigenous knowledge is capable ofgenerating the employment and strengthening ofeconomy of the country in health sector. ShalyaTantra is unique in this regard as number ofmedicines, equipments and other procedures arethere to contribute. With these observations here theskill development in Shalya Tantra, one of the mostpromising branch of Ayurveda, has been taken intoconsideration.

Skill- Let us consider what is skill ?

Askillisthelearnedabilitytocarryoutataskwith pre-determined results often within a givenamount of time, energy, or both. In other words, theabilities that one possesses. Skills can often bedivided into domain general and domain-specificskills. For example, in the domain of work, somegeneral skills would include time management,teamwork and leadership, self-motivationandothers, whereas domain-specific skills would beuseful only for a certain job.

Application in Shalya Tantra :

Skill usually requires certain environmentalstimuli and situations to assess the level of skill beingshown and used. Many of us often get impressed bythe kind of results others achieve without realizingthe time invested to achieve them. There is atendency for us to fill in the picture with our ownassumptions but this is not true until unless oneworks hard to achieve this goal. For example if aspecialist in the Shalya Tantra gets recognized by

*Assistant Prof., Deptt. of Shalya Tantra, Faculty of Ayurveda, IMS, BHU, Varanasi

mailto:drarunbhu@gmail.com

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his work in the society then we have to think theamount of hard work done by him to achieve thisstage, recognition and implementation of his skillsto learn others can produce many skilled specialist,who can in turn benefit the society and contribute innation building process. If we want to have that muchof work excellence then we will have to adopt theeffort and dedication to that extent of achiever, thiswill enable us to get desired result in all respect.

History of skill development in Shalya Tantra:

In ancient time development of skill was wellrecognized by our ayurvedic scholars, Sushruta hasgiven the best example of method of skilldevelopment by narrating the dissection on humanbody for learning of anatomy and practice of surgicalskills over fruits, leathers etc before going to haveits real practice. He has also advised to go throughvarious literatures and practical trainings for skilldevelopment. His opinion is that for skilldevelopment there is need of extensive practicaltraining. This shows how important skill developmentis for gaining knowledge leading to nation building.

Scope of skill development:

This can be divided in two major groups(1) Manpower training and Creation of Job- this onone hand will make available the skilled person forquality work as well as job to the many unemployed,which in turn will lead to better socio economic wellbeing and (2) Up gradation of existing manpower-this will enable better productivity of the work,feasibility of the skills to larger population withefficiency earlier which was limited to certainpopulation. Strengthening of pre existinginfrastructure will impose less financial burden onadministrative sector.

(1) Manpower training and Creation of Job Theareas where the manpower training can produce thenew jobs and there are very less number of skilledpeople in that area are in the field of Shalya Tantraare-

(a) Medicinal preparations like various types ofOils, Ghrit and Kshar Sutra etc.

(b) Para surgical procedures l