National Institute of Ayurveda

About National Institute of Ayurveda

The National Institute of Ayurveda, established on 7-2-1976, is an apex Institute under the Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India for promoting the growth and development of Ayurveda as a model Institute and for evolving high standards of teaching, training, research and patient care and also to invoke scientific outlook to the knowledge of Ayurveda System of Medicine. The Institute has a glorious tradition of more than 143 years when the Department of Ayurveda was started in 1865 in the Maharaja Sanskrit College, Jaipur which gained popularity as the "Jaipur School of Thought". An independent Ayurvedic College was established in August 1946 by the Government of Rajasthan and this College in the country to start Post-Graduate Education in Ayurveda way back in 1970.