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Chief Patrons

Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Hon’ble Minister of H&FW, Government of India
Shri B S Yeddyurappa, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Government of Karnataka
Dr Raman Singh, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Government of Chhattisgarh
Shri S Gandhiselvan, Hon’ble Minister of State,H&FW, Government of India

Patrons

Shri B Sriramulu, Hon’ble Minister of H&FW, Government of Karnataka
Shri Ramachandra Gowda, Hon’ble Minister,Medical Education, Government of Karnataka

Steering Committee

Chair
Secretary, Department of AYUSH, Ministry of H&FW, Government of India
Co-Chair
Joint Secretary, Department of AYUSH, Ministry of H&FW, Government of India
Members
President, Central Council of Indian Medicine, New Delhi
Director/Vice Chancellor, NIMHANS, Bengaluru
Secretary, State Health Department, Karnataka
Director, Department of Ayurveda, Karnataka
Executive Director, Pharmexcil
National Organising Secretary, Vijnana Bharati

Members of the Organising Secretariat

Chairman

Dr P M Varier, Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakal

Co-Chairman

Dr Jayaprakash Narayan, Vice President, Central Council of Indian Medicine, Bengaluru

Secretary-Generals

Dr Bhushan Patwardhan, University of Pune
Mr Jayant Sahasrabudhe, Vijnana Bharati, Mumbai

Chairman (Academics)

Dr M R Vasudevan Nampoothiri, Director, Medical Education, Government of Kerala

Convener (Academics)

Dr G G Gangadharan, I-AIM (FRLHT), Bengaluru

Convener (Expo)

Mr Ranjit Puranik, S Mumbai

Chairman (International Cooperation)

Dr Dinesh C Katoch, WHO, New Delhi

Conveners (International Cooperation)

Dr Subash Ranade, Pune
Dr Vasant Lad, Pune
Dr Rajesh Kotecha, Jaipur
Dr Tanuja Nesari, Pune
Dr Kiranlal, Kuala Lumpur

Coordinator (AYUSH)

Mrs Meenakshi Negi, Department of AYUSH, Ministry of H&FW, Government of India, New Delhi

Chairman: Publicity and Documentation

Dr S Sunil Kumar, Thiruvananthapuram

Organising Secretary

Dr G Geetha Krishnan, New Delhi

Advisory Board

Chief Convenor

Dr Vijay Bhatkar, Pune

Members

Dr S Ayyappan, Secretary and Director-General, Department of Agricultural Research and Education & Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India
Dr Thirumalachari Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Prof. Samir K Brahmachari, Secretary, Department for Scientific and Industrial Research & Director-General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India
Dr Vishwa Mohan Katoch, Secretary, Department of Health Research, Ministry of H&FW; Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research, Government of India Vice-Chancellor, Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar
Prof. Ajay Kumar Sharma, Director, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur Director-General, CCRAS, New Delhi
Prof H R Nagendra, Vice Chancellor, SVYASA University, Bangalore
Dr Swashpawan Singh, Former Ambassador of India and Honorary Adviser to Department of AYUSH, Government of India
Prof. K I Vasu, Patron, Vijnana Bharati
Vaidya Devendra Triguna, New Delhi
Dr S K Sharma, Adviser, Department of AYUSH, Government of India
Dr Ramesh Nanal, Mumbai
Mr Darshan Shankar, FRLHT

State Organising Committee

Chairman

Dr B G Gopinath, Dean, Sri Sri College of Ayurveda, Bengaluru

Co-Chairman

Dr K C Bellard, Member, Central Council of Indian Medicine, Bengaluru

Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

Created in 1995 as the Department of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy, it was renamed as Depar tment of AYUSH (Ayur veda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) in November 2003. The Depar tment focuses on upgrading AYUSH educational standards, implementing quality control and drug standardization, improving the availability of medicinal plant mater ial, aiding research and development and generating awareness about the efficac y of the systems, within the countr y and overseas. I ts declared objec tives 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 effec tive 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.