Uttaranchal plans Ayurveda university

By Our Staff Correspondent

DEHRA DUN, MAY 16. A new chapter in the field of ayurveda seems to be opening up with the Uttaranchal Minister for Finance and Ayurveda, Dr.Ramesh Pokhriyal `Nishank', announcing that a university of Ayurveda will be established soon.

Quoting profusely from Vedic texts, Dr.Nishank said ayurveda, if practised in the right spirit, could heal most dreaded ailments which, in fact, were the result of the faulty ways of life adopted by the so-called modern society.

Inaugurating the first Vishal Ayurved Sammelan of the Vishwa Ayurved Parishad here, Dr.Nishank said the government had decided to upgrade and rejuvenate the Rishikul Ayurvedic College and the Gurukul Ayurvedic College at Hardwar. Amid applause from the delegates Dr.Nishank said the step-motherly treatment to ayurveda over the past 50 years should be forgotten as a bad dream and efforts made to make India once again the world leader in medicine. Try to draw a bigger line instead of making efforts to show the other medical sciences in poor light, he said.

Describing Uttaranchal as ``an Eden Garden full of miracle herbs'', Dr.Nishank said experts should now try to identify important plants which could be cultivated for commercial exploitation. ``We will not offer anything free but not charge heavily also,'' he said.

Expressing happiness over the increasing awareness about the values laid down in ayurveda, Dr.Nishank said the five star ayurveda clinics coming up in Uttaranchal like the Ananda resort in Narendra Nagar were proof enough that the time had come to lead a better life. If people can afford five star clinics, they will be more than happy to get the same treatment in small clean setups which could be set up by the enterprising youngsters of Uttaranchal, he said.

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