IMA moves SC on allowing Ayurvedic PG practitioners to perform surgeries The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has moved the Supreme Court against a Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) order to authorise postgraduate practitioners in specified streams of Ayurveda system of medicine to be trained to perform general surgical procedures. | 21 Dec 2020 2:06 AM GMT NEW DELHI: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has moved the Supreme Court against a Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) order to authorise postgraduate practitioners in specified streams of Ayurveda system of medicine to be trained to perform general surgical procedures. "The petition was filed on Saturday to urge the Court to set aside or quash the amendment to regulations to the Postgraduate Ayurveda Surgery by CCIM and declare that the Council does not have the powers to include modern medicine in syllabus," said IMA president DrRajan Sharma.