With the support of the Ministry of AYUSH, the World Ayurveda Foundation is organising the 7th World Ayurveda Congress on December 2-4 at Science City in Kolkata.

• The focus of the Ayurveda Congress will be “Strengthening the Ayurveda Ecosystem”.

• The ministry has also organised AROGYA Expo from December 1-4 at Science City to facilitate development and growth of AYUSH system of medicine.
• Union Minister for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik will inaugurate the expo .

Ministry of AYUSH:

The Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy, abbreviated as AYUSH, is a governmental body in India purposed with developing, education and research in ayurveda, yoga, naturopathy, unani, siddha, and homoeopathy, Sowa-rigpa (Traditional Tibetan medicine), and other Indigenous Medicine systems.

The department was created in March 1995 as the Department of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy (ISM&H). AYUSH received its current name in March 2003. That time it was operated under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare