What happened (Maharashtra’s decision)
Maharashtra allowed homeopathic practitioners to give alternative medicine orders, but only within a limited scope and only after completing a prescribed bridge course.
Background and earlier position
Before this permission, homeopathic prescribing in Maharashtra was not framed as an automatic right to issue orders across a wider clinical scope; practitioners faced constraints from existing regulatory and administrative practice for alternative medicine and clinical authority.
What changed now
The permission now depends on completion of a specified bridge course. Maharashtra’s approach ties authorization to an additional training condition, aiming to limit practice to what is permitted after the bridge course.
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