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We have already
entered in the 3rd millennium. The
people, globally wants to be treated by Ayurveda
as it is easily available, eco friendly and
toxicity free due to its holistic approach.
There is a need to provide standard and quality
Ayurvedic drugs in Indian and global market. For
this purpose it is necessary to provide genuine
raw medicinal herbs in global herbal market. The
target could be achieved by forming the
co-operatives of medicinal plants. It is need of
the hour to give training to the farmers and
drug collectors for identification, cultivation,
collection, preservation and storage of
medicinal plants. The Gujarat Ayurved University
has conducted such training programme under the
Dept. of Botanical Garden for the gardeners and
farmers of the adjoining area of Jamnagar.
Moreover, for teaching and training purpose
higher attitude plants are being cultivated in
the Green House and Net House under the Dept. of
Dravyaguna of the I.P.G.T & R.A.
Computerization
of various University Depts.
Under in-service
training programme, the teaching, technical and
non-teaching staff has been given extensive
computer training programme. Subsequently, all
the University depts. have been completely
computerized. In addition, the administrative
offices of the University have the facilities
for fax, internet, etc for quick communication
with different institutions in India and abroad.
In-service training programme in
English
It was conducted
with the objective to improve the professional
capability of the administrative and teaching
staff of the University.
Literary Research
Unit
Under Literary
Research Unit, the University has collection of
valuable and rare manuscripts on Ayurveda.
Presently scanning of these manuscripts is going
on to finally prepare the CDs of these rare
manuscripts.
Weekly
Seminar
Organization
of weekly seminars at the Institute of Post
Graduate Teaching & Research in Ayurveda is part
of regular academic activities. The postgraduate
students present the detailed research work
related to their thesis on each Thursday
followed by discussion and suggestions by the
M.D. (Ayu), Ph.D. scholars and the faculty
members. The details are regularly published in
monthly news letter of the University. The
number of presented weekly seminars is as under:
Period No. of Weekly
Seminars
(April –
March) conducted
1998 - 1999
20
1999 - 2000
35
2000 - 2001
31
2001 - 2002
37
2002 - 2003
33
Ph.D.
Pre-submission Seminar
The Ph.D.
Scholars registered under various depts. of the
Institute of Post Graduate Teaching & Research
in Ayurveda before submitting their Ph.D.
thesis, have to present Ph.D. Pre-submission
seminar. The details of the Ph.D. Pre-submission
seminar are as under:
Period
No. of Ph.D. Pre-submission
(April –
March) Seminars conducted
1998 - 1999
4
1999 - 2000
3
2000 - 2001
6
2001 - 2002
3
2003
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