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Patanjali Yoga Peeth phase II inaugurated

April 4th, 2009

Swami RamdevHaridwar: Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Friday added another milestone in efforts to spread the Yoga and Ayurveda across the world with the inauguration of Patanjali Yog Peeth II phase here.

Mother of Baba Ramdev, Gulab Devi, and mother of Acharya Balkrishna Sumitra Devi inaugurated the Yogpeeth and blessed the duo for their success.

Speaking on the occasion, Deputy Managing worker of Sahara India Pariwar Shri OP Srivastava emphasized on spreading yoga,while industrialist Rahul Bajaj expressed his anger over current political scenario. Baba Ramdev wants India to emerge as the Yoga Guru of the World.

The inauguration ceremony was held with former RSS Chief K C Sudershan, Rahul Bajaj(Bajaj Group), Mr Karsanbhai Patel (Nirma Group), Mr Anil Agrawal (Vedanta Group), Mr Subhash Chandra(Zee Group), Mr Brijmohan Munjal (Hero Honda Group), Mr R S Goenka (Emami Group) Mr OP Shrivastava (Sahara Group), Mr P D Lakhani etc as the distinguished invited guests.

The Patanjali Yog Peeth is an ambitious project with a yoga university, a naturopathy department which can handle 1,000 patients at a time, a residential complex for patients, a hall for 5,000 people to practise yoga and the world’s largest hospital ward to treat 5,000 patients a day.

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New Medical Varsity to come up in Kerala by next year

February 6th, 2009

Thrissur, Kerala: The proposed Kerala University of Medical and Allied Sciences will start functioning from next year, Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy has said. She was speaking after inaugurating the project office of the proposed university on the Thrissur Government Medical College Hospital campus.

She hoped the project would achieve considerable progress in the next few months. Health Secretary Usha Titus said that courses would begin in the university from the 2010-2011 academic year.

“The proposed university will have departments of various medical disciplines like Modern Medicine, Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Unani and allied subjects. The departments will be developed as centres of excellence with modern research facilities,” she said. The university will be set up on about 75 acres on the Thrissur Government Medical College campus.

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Punjab Govt grants approval to set up Ayurvedic University in Hoshiarpur

September 3rd, 2008

Chandigarh: Punjab cabinet which met here Wednesday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has granted its approval to the setting up of Ayurvedic University in the State.

An official spokesman said that the University would be located in the foot- hills of the Shivalik range in Hoshiarpur district known for its rich and exotic fauna and flora. The district had been chosen since its soil is congenial for the growth of herbal medicine parks which were supplementary and complementary for the promotion of Ayush in Punjab.

The need for this university which would be only the 3rd in the world of its kind was felt in view of the growing awareness of alternative system of medicine to promote Ayush which covered Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani Siddha and Homeopathy apart from Ayurveda which were earlier popular in large number of states of our country have now caught global imagination with many countries of Asian, European and American continents evincing deep interest in these.

With growing popularity and wide acceptability of Ayurvedic and Yoga, India had now become a major medical Tourism Center for international tourists as a sizable chunk of Medical Tourists preferred Ayurvedic medicinal treatment as a traditional health care system.

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Cabinet Okays combined medical university in Kerala

August 22nd, 2008

In Thiruvanthapuram the Kerala governments gave the green signal for setting up a medical university in Thrissur. The Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan gave details about the university to the reporters after the weekly cabinet meeting. On Thursday gave nod for the formation of a combined university for all systems of medicines with separate board of studies, faculty and board of examination for each stream.

The proposed Kerala University for Medical and Allied Sciences will handle all the academic activities, including the conduct of examinations from 2009-10. Before this all the colleges under each stream including paramedical colleges would be affiliated to this university. The University Act and statute will be formulated within six months and will be presented in the Assembly.

For deciding the policy matters of the university, the government has appointed a high-level committee headed by Health Minister P K Sreemathi in which the secretaries of Health, Higher Education & medical education heads from allopathy, Ayurveda and homoeo have been made members. Dr Usha Titus has been appointed as the project director.
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Himalaya – UAS joint research

July 22nd, 2008

Bangalore-based Himalaya Drug Company, which has pioneered the contemporization of Ayurveda through the use of scientific research, recently signed an MoU with the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (UAS, B) to facilitate collaborative research on medicinal herbs and plants with a view to discovering new therapeutic drugs, building a corpus of knowledge on herbs and preserving endangered herbs and plants.

Himalaya will study herbs and plants in specific regions to understand therapeutic benefits and differences in therapeutic properties of herbs across regions; prepare joint research projects; while UAS will assist in training of farmers to promote better agricultural practices, study and documentation of rare, endangered herbs; facilitate joint research projects on tissue culture of rare and endangered herbs and assist Himalaya in setting up a herb garden that will be a centre for national and international research activities.

In addition, UAS will provide training to farmers under Himalaya’s contract farming Programme, assist Himalaya in setting up a botanical garden which would serve as a centre for national and international research activities and provide technical assistance and education to Himalaya scientists as the company moves towards its process of organic certification.

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