CCRAS and BIS Sign MoU to Strengthen Ayurveda Quality Standards

Key facts

• The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), under the Ministry of Ayush, and the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen Ayurveda quality standards.
• The MoU was signed by CCRAS Director General Prof. (Vaidya) Rabinarayan Acharya and BIS Deputy Director General (Standardisation-II) Sanjay Pant in the presence of Ministry of Ayush Secretary Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha.
• The collaboration will cover development of standards for Ayurveda and other Ayush systems, improvement of laboratory quality, conformity assessment and scientific validation of traditional knowledge.
• Scientists from CCRAS are expected to contribute directly to standards development as Project Leaders across the organisation's 30 peripheral institutes and centres.
• The MoU is BIS's 100th Memorandum of Understanding and its first with an Ayush sector organisation.
• The BIS Ayurveda Sectional Committee currently has 128 Indian Standards under it, while 243 standards covering different Ayush domains have been developed in the past three years.