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Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Thursday laid the foundation stone for a Centre for Excellence in Ayurveda Research at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Speaking during the function, the Union Minister said that the Centre will develop new scientific technologies to standardize the herbal constituents in Ayurvedic drugs.

“While Ayurveda has been in use in the country for centuries, the field still faces issues with advanced research and use of scientific tools in diagnosis. The Centre of Excellence in Ayurveda is trying to address these issues and make Ayurveda more scientifically acceptable, and create a wider market for Ayurveda products," the minister said.

A standardization of the herbal constituents in Ayurvedic drugs will make them more effective and less harmful to the human body. The scientific validation of Ayurvedic medicines through these new technologies would also give greater acceptance to Ayurveda globally, Jitendra Singh said.

The new Centre will be of immense benefit to the state which is a Ayurvedic treatment hub as well as a major tourist destination in the country.

“Kerala has immense scientific and research potential due to the resources available here and its generations-old legacy of research and innovation. The state has become a favourite destination for scientists and is on its way to becoming the science capital of the nation,” the minister said. 

Singh inaugurated the community enterprises of Scheduled Castes-Scheduled Tribes communities of Kerala promoted jointly by the Tribal Science Heritage project of Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council- Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (BRIC-RGCB) and Swadeshi Science Movement-Kerala (SSM-K) at the BRIC-RGCB campus here. The MoS also inaugurated a Centre of Excellence for Performing Chemicals and Sustainable Polymers, which, according to the minister, will boost India's ambitions of becoming the third-largest economy in the world by 2030. 

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