By Team Ayurved Sutra
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Ten thousand delegates from 60 countries to participate in virtual GAF 2021
New Delhi. The 4 th edition of the Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF 2021), to be held on
virtual platform during March 12 to 19 has evinced response far above
expectations, superseding its previous episodes.
The event will have“more than 10,000 participants from sixty nations converging on
Ayurveda, the Global Ayurveda Festival 2021 will be a milestone in the
academic, research, industrial and commercial sectors”, says V.
Muraleedharan, Organizing Committee Chair of the Global Ayurveda
Festival and Union Minister of State for External Affairs and
Parliamentary Affairs. Of the 2000 scientific papers received for
presentations, the organizing committee –due to time and technical
constraints – had to restrict live presentations to 650, picking another
500 in posters with equal prominence.
Internationally acclaimed researches on Ayurveda, like Dr Daniel E. Fost
(Professor of Medicine, University of California) Dr Christian Kessler
(Charity University, Germany) Robert Schneider (Maharshi
International University, USA), Dr Antonella Delifev MD (University of
Milan); Dr Valdis Pirax (University of Latvia) Philip Moss (University of
Vienna), Ph.D. Dr Morton Bode (University of Amsterdam); Susan Shaw
(New Zealand Vocal University); And foreign experts such as Large Louis
Bera (Argentina) will be sharing their research experiments to the
audience, with special emphasis in the post-COVID scenario. The
approach and initiatives of the Government of India will be deliberated
by key researches and policy makers of the nation that include:
Dr. B. Dr.M. Headhey (Former President, Indian National Academy of Sciences); Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha (Central AYUSH Secretary), Dr Bhushan
Patwardhan (Vice Chairman- UGC); Manoj Nesari ,Dr. DC Catoch
(Advisors to the Ministry of AYUSH), Dr. KS Dhiman (Director, CCRAS,
New Delhi), Jayant Deo Pujari (President, CCIM ); Dr Anoop B Thakur
(Vice Chancellor, Gujarat Ayurveda University); Dr Sanjeev Sharma
(Director, NIA, Jaipur); Dr Anoop Srivastava (Director, Rastriya
Ayurveda Vidhyapith, Delhi), Dr. Tanuja Manoj Nesari (Director, AIIA,
Delhi); Dr J L N Shastri (CEO, NMPB, Delhi), Dr MRV Namboothiri
(Formerly DAME, Kerala), Ranjith Puranik (Mumbai), Dr Mohammad
Majeed (Sami Labs), Anand Chaudhary (Banaras University) and
Abhimanyu Kumar (former Director, AIIA, New Delhi) will also present
research papers at the festival. ‘GAF 2021 will undoubtedly be the largest
virtual conference on Ayurveda’, says Dr G.G. Gangadharan, Secretary
General, CISSA. ‘The 8 days Ayurveda Fest will debate on the research
potential and business opportunities and scope for exports of Ayurveda
products and services for 12 hours each day,’ he said.
The Global Ayurveda Meet is organized in collaboration with more than
30 organizations in the country from the Central and State Private
Sectors and 14 organizations from abroad, including Led by the Center
for Innovation in Science and Social Action (CISSA), the Ayurveda
Medical Association of India (AMAI), the Ayurveda Hospital
Management Association, the Ayurveda Drugs Manufacturers
Association, and the Kisma-Self Financing Management Association,
and The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries
(FICCI) is the industry partner of the festival.
