Two national level research institutes for yoga and naturopathy will soon come up at Nagamangala in Karnataka and Jhajjar in Haryana respectively to benefit students keen to do higher education in the alternative therapies which are being increasingly accepted in the country as also the world.
The institutes will also help patients in getting treatments in yoga and naturopathy to tackle increasing non communicable diseases (NCDs) among others.
Dr Ishwar Acharya, Director of the Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy (CCRYN) told The Pioneer that the post-graduate institutes will become functional soon and it will help further the cause of yoga and naturopathy.
“The two institutes would offer post-graduate course in the related streams of alternate medicine. The facility for which 15 acres of land was allotted by the Karnataka Government is being set up at a cost of around Rs80 crore under the Central Government grant,” he said.
The Central Research Institute (CRI) at Jhajjar, Bahadurgarh in Haryana is spread over ten acres of land provided by the State Government. It is being set up at the cost of Rs65 crore.
However, Central Research Institutes (CRI) proposed at Bhubaneswar in Odisha and at West Bengal are yet to see the light of the day as there has been delay because of land issues.
With no let up in the NCD cases which accounts for 60 per cent of the total fatalities in the country, alternate traditional Indian medicine system like yoga and naturopathy are being increasingly seen as the solutions to control life style disorders, according to Dr Acharya.
In an effort to reinstate its efforts to integrate traditional systems with modern medicine practices, the Centre has already established three autonomous organisations namely Morarji Desai National Institute for Yoga (MDNIY), New Delhi, National Institute for Naturopathy (NIN) at Pune and Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy (CCRYN) in New Delhi.
The aim is to impart education and carry out research for scientific validation of the outcomes, thereby enhancing the acceptability of Ayush systems of care, said a senior officer from the Ministry.