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4 Institutions/Agencies Involved in Development
and Promotion of Medicinal Plants in India
The government of India constituted National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) was
constituted in November 2000 under the Chairpersonship of Union Health and Family
Welfare Minister to promote and coordinate related to medicinal plants and effectively support policies and programmes for the growth of trade, export, conservation
and cultivation. The board is located in the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. Under new BJP regime in India, Government of India has allocated Rs.
50,000 million for the growth and development of Dept of Ayush. An Independent
National Ayush Mission has been launched for promoting capacity building in the
sector. Further, a new portfolio of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani
Sidha and Homoeopathy) has been created for its development (DNA 2015). The
approved outlay for the Dept of AYUSH has been increased from Rs 7750 million
in 10th FYP to Rs. 39,880 million in the 11th FYP (GoI 2011).
Particularly, North-eastern region is endowed with rich medicinal plant biodiversity. Keeping this in view, a Resource Centre for AYUSH including medicinal plants in North East has been set up to work as an interface between the State
Government and the Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Further, at the sub-state level (district, block or Taluka and at village levels)
programme based interventions related to medicinal plants is organised by local
NGOs and community groups (Shukla and Gardner 2006). Two NGOs are contributing yeoman service towards conservation and development of traditional knowledge
system they are namely (i) Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)
31 and (ii) Rural Commune’s Medicinal Plant Conservation Centre
(RCMPCC), is based in Pune in the western state of Maharashtra (Table 2).
5 Resource Base, Utilisation and Conservation
of Medicinal Plants Across India (Demand and Supply)
Most of the medicinal plants are distributed across diverse habitats and landscape.
At present, growth medicinal plants are concentrated in very few states prominently
being Jammu & Kashmir, New Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat & Daman, few places
in Haryana, Himachal
32 Pradesh, Jharkand, Karnataka,
33 Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,
31 Please visit the link for more information: http://envis.frlht.org/.
32 Himachal Pradesh with a geographical area of 55,673 km 2 (about 1.7% of the country’s geographical area) is richly endowed with more than 3500 species of medicinal and aromatic plants
out which 800 species are used within and outside the state (DMAPR 2011).
33 As per the inventory of medicinal plant database created by FRLHT, Bangalore, the state of
Karnataka is endowed with 1838 varieties of medicinal plant species particularly in Western and
Easternghats. Similarly, in Tamilnadu-1840, Kerala-2052, Chattisgarh-more than 2000, Orissa-more
S. Nautiyal et al.
4 Institutions/Agencies Involved in Development
and Promotion of Medicinal Plants in India
The government of India constituted National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) was
constituted in November 2000 under the Chairpersonship of Union Health and Family
Welfare Minister to promote and coordinate related to medicinal plants and effectively support policies and programmes for the growth of trade, export, conservation
and cultivation. The board is located in the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH) of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. Under new BJP regime in India, Government of India has allocated Rs.
50,000 million for the growth and development of Dept of Ayush. An Independent
National Ayush Mission has been launched for promoting capacity building in the
sector. Further, a new portfolio of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani
Sidha and Homoeopathy) has been created for its development (DNA 2015). The
approved outlay for the Dept of AYUSH has been increased from Rs 7750 million
in 10th FYP to Rs. 39,880 million in the 11th FYP (GoI 2011).
Particularly, North-eastern region is endowed with rich medicinal plant biodiversity. Keeping this in view, a Resource Centre for AYUSH including medicinal plants in North East has been set up to work as an interface between the State
Government and the Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Further, at the sub-state level (district, block or Taluka and at village levels)
programme based interventions related to medicinal plants is organised by local
NGOs and community groups (Shukla and Gardner 2006). Two NGOs are contributing yeoman service towards conservation and development of traditional knowledge
system they are namely (i) Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)
31 and (ii) Rural Commune’s Medicinal Plant Conservation Centre
(RCMPCC), is based in Pune in the western state of Maharashtra (Table 2).
5 Resource Base, Utilisation and Conservation
of Medicinal Plants Across India (Demand and Supply)
Most of the medicinal plants are distributed across diverse habitats and landscape.
At present, growth medicinal plants are concentrated in very few states prominently
being Jammu & Kashmir, New Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat & Daman, few places
in Haryana, Himachal
32 Pradesh, Jharkand, Karnataka,
33 Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,
31 Please visit the link for more information: http://envis.frlht.org/.
32 Himachal Pradesh with a geographical area of 55,673 km 2 (about 1.7% of the country’s geographical area) is richly endowed with more than 3500 species of medicinal and aromatic plants
out which 800 species are used within and outside the state (DMAPR 2011).
33 As per the inventory of medicinal plant database created by FRLHT, Bangalore, the state of
Karnataka is endowed with 1838 varieties of medicinal plant species particularly in Western and
Easternghats. Similarly, in Tamilnadu-1840, Kerala-2052, Chattisgarh-more than 2000, Orissa-more