NISARG GRAM
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Subject: Current Events
Context:Ministry of AYUSH will develop Nisarg Gram campus at Pune as the 21st Century abode of Naturopathy.
Concept:
- Invoking recollections of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Nature Cure campaign of 1946 at the “NisargUpchar” Ashram in UruliKanchan village near Pune, the upcoming new campus of National Institute of Naturopathy (NIN), Pune will be called “Nisarg Gram”.
- Located at a distance of 15 Km from NIN’s present premises at BapuBhavan, the new Institution will be future-ready, with many novelties and innovations incorporated in the project per se and the curriculum of the Naturopathy courses.
Additional Information:
- NIN, Pune is an Autonomous Body under the Ministry of AYUSH.
- The institution was called All India Nature Cure Foundation and was set up under Gandhi Ji’s leadership in 1945 at the same premises where the NIN presently functions.
- It was subsequently taken over by the Central Government and structured into the present National Institute of Naturopathy.