First Look - Plans Of AP Seed Capital Area

100-cr Yoga Research Centre Coming up in Capital Region

VIJAYAWADA: A Rs 100-cr, Central government-funded National Research Center for Yoga and Naturopathy is being set up in the capital region of Andhra Pradesh, according to commissioner of AYUSH  Nalini Mohan.

Disclosing this to newsmen here Saturday -- the eve of the World Yoga Day -- he said, that the Central government was keen on promoting Yoga as an alternative medicine for disease management and hence it had sanctioned the research center in the AP capital region.

“Once the required land is handed over, the construction work will commence. The district administration has already identified 25 acres of land near Agiripalli,” he said and added that the centre would also run a naturopathy clinic.

The state government was also making efforts to set up ‘nature cure and yoga wellness centers’ in all 13 districts of AP by the end of this year, he said. “With the support of the Endowments Department, we have identified suitable places to set up these wellness centers at Srisailam (Kurnool district) Kalahasti and Kanipakam (Chittoor district), Vijayawada (Krishna district), Visakhapatnam (Viskhapatnam district) and Annavaram (East Godavari district) and we are looking for private partnership to set up such centers in the remaining districts. In these wellness centers, the integrated treatment like homeopathy and Yoga or Yoga and naturopathy and many other combinations would be available for the public,” he explained.

In Srisailam, the required land for the construction of a 100-bed Ayurvedic hospital had been identified and the construction work would commence shortly. AYUSH was already promoting naturopathy and yoga at 47 centres across the state under the National Rural Health Mission and the same would be introduced in 603 dispensaries under the department in the state shortly.

Regarding the upgradation of Ayurvedic hospital in Vijayawada, Nalini Mohan said that there was only 50 per cent occupancy ratio in this hospital due to lack of awareness among the public and lack of proper trained doctors. “For various diseases, there are treatments in this hospital, but the facilities are not sufficient. We have already requested the Central government for funds to develop the traditional methods of curing diseases and once the funds are sanctioned we will upgrade all the hospitals in the state and the doctors working in these hospitals will be given special training, but it will take another two or two and half years for it to happen,” he said.

‘NAMO Yoga’ App to be Launched

City-based Awesome Computech Private Limited will release a mobile application - ‘NAMO Yoga’ on Sunday marking the first International Yoga Day (IYD). Developed by company founder 17-year-old Sai Akash, it will feature 15 yoga asanas to be performed during the IYD.The ‘NAMO Yoga’ (short form for Narendra Modi) app will show the 15 asanas on demand. The free app can be downloaded through Play Store in Android, App Store in iOS and Windows Store in Windows. The objective is to make people not forget the asanas.