Thiruvananthapuram: The central government will extend financial support to set up a new ayurvedic clinical research centre in Kerala to help scientifically validate traditional systems of healing, a union minister said yesterday.
Shripad Yesso Naik, minister of state for AYUSH, said this as he announced the new National Programme of Ayurveda Inspired Research initiated by the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) and the proposed ayurveda expo National Arogya 2015 at a function here.
The RGCB will set up the National Centre for Excellence for Ayurveda Inspired Discovery that will lead research into efficacy mechanisms involved in ayurvedic therapeutics.
It has also proposed two sister campuses, an ‘ayurvedic clinical research centre’ in Konni and a ‘high altitude discovery centre’ in Munnar in Kerala.
Naik said the central government will fund the setting up of the clinical research facility in Konni.
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