
Created in 1995 as the Department of Indian
Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy, it was
renamed as Department of AYUSH (Ayurveda,
Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and
Homoeopathy) in November 2003.
The department has become a full-fledged
Ministry in November 2014. The Ministry
focuses on upgrading AYUSH educational
standards, implementing quality control and
drug standardization, improving the availability
of medicinal plant material, aiding research and
development and generating awareness about
the efficacy of the systems, within the country
and overseas. Its declared objectives are as
follows:
Upgrade the educational standards in the Indian
systems of medicine and in homoeopathy
colleges in the country.
Strengthen existing research institutions and
ensure a time-bound research programme on
identified diseases for which these systems have
an effective treatment.
Draw up schemes for promotion, cultivation
and regeneration of medicinal plants used
in these systems. Evolve pharmacopoeial
standards for Indian systems of medicine and
homoeopathic drugs.

Founded in 2011, the World Ayurveda Foundation
(WAF) is an initiative by Vijnana Bharati aimed at
global propagation of Ayurveda. As part of a larger
intellectual movement under the aegis of the
Swadeshi Science Movement undertaken by Vijnana
Bharati, WAF is a platform that would take Ayurveda
to the world for all the benefits mankind can draw
from traditional health sciences.
The objectives of WAF reflect global scope.
Propagation and encouragement of all activities
– scientific and Ayurveda-related – are the core
principles. Support to research, health-care
programmes through camps, clinics and sanatoriums,
documentation, organization of study groups,
seminars, exhibitions and knowledge initiatives to
popularize Ayurveda in the far corners of the world
are the broad latitudes of focus at WAF. Ayurveda as
a sector requires the kind of stewardship and voice
that genuinely bring out the ethos of Ayurveda in
matters that govern policy and planning with State
and Central government administration in India and
the world over. WAF is positioned to provide this
much-needed leadership with its wide participation
of various stakeholder groups.
The impact of WAF encompasses the areas of policy,
action, public health, trade, practice, science and,
above all, global outreach for the benefit of society
and mankind.

Vijnana Bharati or VIBHA is a national
movement dedicated to the integrated
development of Bharat through the
intervention of science, engineering and
technology. Launched in 1991 by a group of
thinkers and scientists, VIBHA has, today, 29
active units and 6 overseas units.
Eminent scientists, academicians, policy
makers and social workers are the torch
bearers of this movement.
VIBHA takes the spirit of ‘Swadeshi’ along
with the ethos of our culture. It emphasizes
that science and spirituality should go
hand in hand. VIBHA works towards rural
development, technology transfer, and
social empowerment so as to bring the fruits
of advancement of science and technology
for the benefit of the society. It has received
two national awards for popularizing science
and technology: one in 2006 from Dr
Manmohan Singh, Hon’ble Prime Minister
of India, and the other in 2007 from Mr
Kapil Sibal, Hon’ble Minister for Science and
Technology, Government of India.
VIBHA works towards national self-reliance
and a developed India. Towards this mission,
VIBHA adopts, adapts, and assimilates the
best from everywhere and associates with
the best of universities, R&D organizations
and other movements.
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ADDRESS
WAC Secretariat,
World Ayurveda Foundation,
107/1, Margosa Road,
Between 13th & 14th Cross,
Malleswaram, Bengaluru, Karnataka,
India. Pin : 560003.
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