WITH the AYUSH Ministry pushing for it, the HRD Ministry is learnt to have changed its stand on a proposal to elevate Gujarat’s Ayurved University into the league of IITs, AIIMS and IISERs.
Last year, the HRD Ministry had sought strong justification for Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani’s plea to make the Jamnagar-based Gujarat Ayurved University (GAU) an Institute of National Importance (INI).
An INI is a premier academic institution specialising in an area of national importance. It is set up by an Act of Parliament and receives recognition and funding from the Union government. Currently, there are 91 INIs, including all the IITs, IIMs, AIIMS, IISERs and NITs.
GAU was established by an Act of the Gujarat Assembly and it offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in ayurvedic pharmaceutical sciences, ayurvedic medicinal plant sciences and yoga and naturopathy.
Read more of this in a story by Ritika Chopra and Abantika Ghosh in The Sunday Express...
