Context: Recently, the AYUSH Ministry and Invest India will be jointly setting up a ‘Strategic Policy & Facilitation Bureau’ for facilitating systematic and planned growth of the Ayush sector.
Key Points

• It aims to facilitate planned and systematic growth of the Ayush Sector.
• The Ministry of AYUSH would assist the Bureau in responding to investment proposal, issue and queries and fund Invest India for undertaking activities assigned. 
• The Ministry will also support the Bureau in building links with various stakeholders such as industry associations, affiliate bodies of Ministry and Industry representation.
• This Bureau will support the Ministry in strategic and policy making initiatives that shall help pave the way to reach the full potential of the Sector and stimulate growth and investment.

The activities to be undertaken by the SPFB would include :

• Knowledge Creation and Management,
• Strategic & Policy-Making Support,
• State Policy Bench marking: Undertaking State Policy bench marking to formulate uniform guidelines/regulations regarding AYUSH sector in India.
• Investment Facilitation: Follow up and facilitation of investment cases and MoUs, and coordination among different Department, organisations and States.
• Issue Resolution: Invest India would work with companies and other institutions on issue resolution across States and among various sub-sectors.

About Invest India

• Invest India is India's national Investment Promotion & Facilitation Agency.
• It was set up in 2009 as a non-profit venture under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
• It focuses on sector-specific investor targeting and development of new partnerships to enable sustainable investments in India.
• It partners with substantial investment promotion agencies and multilateral organizations and also actively works with several Indian states to build capacity as well as bring in global best practices in investment targeting, promotion and facilitation areas.