Baripada, June 19: The authorities are apparently doing nothing to revive the Mayurbhanj Ayurved Mahavidyalaya here and this has caused resentment among people.

The college started in 1983 in Baripada and moved to Takatpur in 1990. From 1992, it started a bachelor of ayurvedic medicine and surgery course with 30 seats.

The college, which also provided medical treatment, is now defunct.

The Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM), a statutory body under the Union ministry of Ayush, stopped admissions to the college citing inadequate number of qualified teachers.

The basic problem was that the private college management did not have enough funds to engage adequate teachers and pay them following the CCIM guidelines. The college was completely shut down in 2012.

"When the CCIM team came for inspection in 2008, we had 24 teaching staff against the requirement of 30. We couldn't afford to recruit more teachers due to paucity of funds," Ayush doctor and staff member the college, Aditya Panda said.

"The college had no other source of income beyond students' fees," said principal of the college Sumant Behera.

Mayurbhanj collector Rajesh Prabhakar Patil, who is ex-officio president of the college management, said: "Efforts are on to revive the college, but funds are the main problem."