At the plenary session of Global Ayurveda Summit 2010 at Kochi, B.Anand, Joint Secretary, Department of AYUSH Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Neela Gangadharan, Chief Secretary Government of Kerala announced that the government was looking at international collaborations for propagating Ayush- Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy. Ayush had put together modules of Ayurveda courses on websites and there have been lot of interest from foreign countries. Ayurveda course has been introduced as a three semester course in Middlesex University UK. There are also plans to set up a chair for Ayurveda studies in Germany.

Mr. Anand stressed the need for credible validation of Ayurvedic system and urged the private sector to step in a big way and join hands with the government in mainstream research. China is investing huge amounts in R&D and most of the money has come from expatriates. Mr. Anand also said that the Ayurveda drug manufacturers should form a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for research relevant to today’s world and Ayush could chip in with a matching subsidy. For branding of Ayurvedic products, Ayush had tied up with Quality Control of India (QCI) and about 10 manufacturers have come forward to register 35 products, which would be branded under ‘Ayush Premium’ for exports and ‘Ayush standard’ mark for domestic sales.

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