by admin | May 25, 2021 | World
Panaji : The US military has adopted yoga into its training curriculum, Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik said on Monday.
“Western countries are showing much interest over yoga. In the US alone, nearly 20 million people are practicing yoga and these numbers are increasing by 5 per cent every year. The US military training has adopted yoga in its training curriculum,” Naik said while speaking at the inauguration of a two-day international yoga conference.
The Minister also said that countries in Europe had started recognising the benefits of yoga and that several modern medical institutes there had adopted yoga as an alternative treatment for many disorders.
“Yoga is growing more popular because of increasing lifestyle-related disorders and non-communicable diseases. Some of the non-communicable diseases are growing like an epidemic and there is an urgent need to check its growth.
“Yoga along with other drug-less systems were probably the only answer for preventing such epidemics,” Naik said.
—IANS
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Shripad Naik
Kolkata : The West Bengal government on Tuesday received plaudits from Union Minister Shripad Naik for doing a “very good job” in developing the infrastructure and promoting healthcare and education under the National Ayush Mission (NAM) scheme.
Naik, the Union Minister of State for AYUSH, said Bengal was able to utilise Rs 71.64-crore fund provided under the scheme.
“Under NAM, the state of West Bengal has been provided Rs 71.64 crore since 2014-15. The West Bengal government has done very good job in improving the infrastructure and developing other aspects of AYUSH education and healthcare by utilising funds provided under NAM,” he said while laying the foundation stone of a girls’ hostel in National Institute of Homeopathy (NIH) here.
He requested the state authorities to give “focused attention to utilisation of central funds”, so that the Ministry of AYUSH could provide more assistance for further development and promotion of AYUSH in the state.
“I would urge the state government to give attention to the administrative setup of AYUSH Directorate and the state medicinal plant board for result-oriented outcome of different components under NAM,” the Minister said.
—IANS
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Shimla : Himachal Pradesh is promoting the cultivation and conservation of medicinal plants by encouraging farmers to cultivate them, the government said on Sunday.
Under the National AYUSH Mission, the government is providing financial assistance for which farmer clusters have been set up. To get the benefit of the financial assistance, each cluster must have at least two hectares of land.
A cluster can be of three adjoining villages of 15 km radius. Mortgaged land can also be used for cultivation of the medicinal plants, a government spokesperson told IANS.
The National AYUSH Mission is providing financial assistance of Rs 100 lakh for the cultivation of ‘atis’, ‘kuth’, ‘kutki’, ‘sugandhvala’, ‘ashwagandha’, ‘sarpgandha’ and ‘tulsi’, besides Rs 40 lakh for the construction of two storage warehouses and two drying sheds.
State Ayurveda Director Sanjeev Bhatnagar said Rs 75.54 lakh has been sanctioned by the Ayush Mission in 2017-18 for the medicinal plants in the state.
He said the National Medicinal Plants Board has approved the establishment of a regional-cum-facilitation centre in Mandi district’s Jogindernagar.
The Centre will promote the cultivation and conservation of medicinal plants in five states and one Union Territory — Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh.
Himachal Pradesh has unique geographical conditions and there are areas ranging from 200 to 7,000 metres high.
Due to diverse climatic conditions in the area, numerous types of herbaceous plants are available here.
Una, Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Sirmaur, Kangra, Solan and Mandi districts fall under the sub-tropical Shivalik hills and about 160 species of medicinal plants are cultivated in this zone.
Tribal districts like Kinnaur, Lahaul-Spiti, Kullu, some areas of Kangra and Shimla districts located at an altitude of over 2,500 meters produce useful medicinal plants.
These plants include ‘patis’, ‘batsnabh’, ‘atis’, ‘tragen’, ‘kirmala’, ‘ratanjot’, ‘kala jeera’, ‘kesar’, ‘somlata’, ‘jangli heeng’ and ‘khursani ajwain’.
—IANS
