New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided that no government could discriminate between allopathy practitioners and Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (Ayush) and direct North Delhi Municipal Corporation to pay Aropathy practitioners under the Central Health Scheme , Judge LN Rao and Hrishikesh Roy said if the central government has increased the retirement age of allopathic practitioners up to 65 years and has been carried out by the NDMC, cannot deny the Ayush practitioners used underneath with increasing retirement age.
NDMC argues that the classification of ayush doctors and doctors under CHS under various categories it makes sense and is permitted in law.
Refusing the argument, Bench said, “But this is not attractive to us and we tend to agree with the court findings and the Delhi High Court that the classification is discriminatory and does not make sense because the doctor under both segments performs the same function of treats and cure their patients.” Writing a verdict For benches, Judge Roy said, “The only difference is that doctors Ayush uses a custom medical system such as Ayurveda, Unani, etc.
and CHS doctors use allopathy to care for their patients.
In our understanding, treatment mode by itself under the scheme of things The prevalent, do not meet the requirements as a understandable differentia.
Therefore, the classification and discrimination that does not make sense based on it must be inconsistent with Article 14 of the Constitution.
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