How to check an NCISM registration
Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Sowa-Rigpa practitioners are regulated by the NCISM, which replaced the CCIM in 2021, and registered by state boards.
The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine regulates Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Sowa-Rigpa. Its own site states the basis: the NCISM Act, 2020 (14 of 2020) repealed the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970, and the commission and its four autonomous boards came into force on 11 June 2021, replacing the Central Council of Indian Medicine. Standards made under the 1970 Act continue until replaced. Among its stated aims is to maintain a national register of AUS&SR practitioners.
Registration of individual practitioners is done by state boards and councils — the Karnataka Ayurvedic and Unani Practitioners Board, the Maharashtra Council of Indian Medicine and their counterparts — and it is their numbers that a BAMS, BUMS or BSMS holder cites. Profiles on this site that record "Central Council of Indian Medicine" as the council are recorded here under the NCISM. None of these registrations is on the NMC's medical register, and this site's automated check does not cover them.
How to check an AYUSH practitioner's registration
Ask which state board issued the number and search or write to that board; the NCISM site did not, at the time of checking, offer a public practitioner search on its home page. A practitioner registered under an Indian system of medicine is registered to practise that system; the online consultation rules and the how to spot a fake doctor guide explain why the system named on the certificate matters.
37 profiles cite the NCISM
0 of them (0%) have had that number checked against a register. The rest are recorded as supplied. Counts are read from the live database and refresh hourly.
Number formats seen
| Pattern | Example | Profiles |
|---|---|---|
99999 | 10646 | 22 |
9999 | 1067 | 8 |
999/9 | 160/5 | 1 |
999/99 | 148/97 | 1 |
A = any letter, 9 = any digit. A number that fits none of these is not necessarily wrong; it is worth looking at twice.
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Questions people ask
- Is a BAMS doctor on the NMC register?
- No. Ayurveda practitioners are registered by state boards under the NCISM's framework, not by state medical councils, and do not appear on the NMC's Indian Medical Register.
- What happened to the CCIM?
- The Central Council of Indian Medicine was replaced by the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine when the NCISM Act, 2020 came into force on 11 June 2021. Certificates and profiles still carry the CCIM name; the register they refer to is now the NCISM's.
- Are AYUSH registrations on this site verified?
- Only where staff have checked them by hand. The automated worker reads the NMC register, which does not cover AYUSH practitioners, so these registrations stay marked as supplied until a person checks them.
Every profile names the registering body and the number as supplied, and says whether that number has been checked against a register and when. Where it has not, the profile says so.
General information about how registration works in India, read from the sources below on 25 Sep 2026. Not advice about your situation. Errors can be reported through the corrections process.