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WHO acknowledges Yoga’s benefits
Saturday, 18 May 2013 | Archana Jyoti | New Delhi
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For the first time, World Health Organisation (WHO) has acknowledged the benefits of Indian Yoga, one of the oldest holistic health systems aimed at physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing.
It has designated Delhi-based Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga as its collaborating centre (CC) for developing research guidelines for yoga studies while Institute of PG Training and Research in Ayurveda in Jamnagar in Gujarat has been identified for researches in ayurveda.
The move is expected to give a major fillip to the country’s traditional medical system, including yoga, across the world. So far there have been 21 WHO collaborating centres for traditional medicines but none from India inspite of having a large number of Ayush institutions and 32 collaborating centres for modern medicine.
The two institutions as CCs will focus on assisting the world health body to formulate policies as well as setting regulatory standards for yoga and ayurveda. The designation status will be effective for a period of four years, from April 5, 2013.
“MDNIY has attained the privilege to be the only WHO collaborating centre in the world to engage in achieving yoga specific outcomes,” Institute’s director Ishwar V Basavaraddi told reporters on Friday.
He said that considering the global demand and popularity of yoga for health care, the institute has a lot to offer as the WHO collaborating centre by generating information and documents of yoga for the use of all the member states of the world health body.
Though yoga is considered to have been originated in India, it is the western world that has made it a mainstream phenomenon: 20 million Americans practice it; it is a $6 billion industry and researchers are continuing to study its benefits.
DC Katoch, Financial Advisor (Ayush Department) explained that the WHO does not have its own institutional network but identifies institutions from member countries to work in specific areas of health and designate them as WHO CCs.
“The achievement came after four years of intensive persuasion with the WHO by the Ayush Department of the Health Ministry,” said Katoch.
He said that there was a clear trend of increasing demand for yoga from the public, and the Government has been actively incorporating alternative medicines besides yoga into the public healthcare system
