Authorities Crackdown on Ayurveda Quacks Working from Makeshift Tents in Sri Vijaya Puram

Vikas Kumar

Sri Vijaya Puram, 22 March 2025

In a big transfer to guard public well being, the authorities has launched a crackdown on Ayurveda quacks working out of makeshift tents in varied components of Sri Vijaya Puram. These quacks, typically arriving in teams, arrange short-term operations throughout town, providing doubtful therapies for a spread of ailments — together with circumstances that mainstream medical science considers untreatable.

This troubling development has been recurring within the metropolis, the place these fraudulent practitioners function for a quick interval earlier than packing up and returning to the mainland. Their so-called cures, which lack any type of high quality management or regulatory approval, pose critical well being dangers to unsuspecting residents who fall prey to their false guarantees.

Nicobar Times had beforehand highlighted the menace of those Ayurveda quacks, resulting in a brief decline of their actions. However, a recent wave of quacks resurfaced lately, organising store in numerous areas of town.

In a latest operation, Nicobar Times witnessed officers from the Deputy Commissioner Office, accompanied by police personnel, dismantling a tent close to Joggers Park the place one such Ayurveda quack was working.

The immediate motion is commendable, because it goals to safeguard public well being and forestall islanders from falling sufferer to those fraudulent practices. By taking decisive steps, the administration has despatched a powerful message that such unlawful operations won’t be tolerated in Sri Vijaya Puram.