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Thursday, Oct 30, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Thursday, Oct 30, 2003 |
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Alternative Medicines ICICI Knowledge Park sets up herbal garden Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Oct. 29 THE ICICI Knowledge Park has established a herbal garden to showcase traditional Indian medicinal plants and their therapeutic properties. Called the `Garden of Life', it will have three circular enclosures based on the three-fold classification of ayurveda. The Chairman of the Knowledge Park, Mr N. Vaghul, planted the first sapling and the Director, Dr Ashok Ganguly, launched an initiative for allotment of plots for research and development (R&D) units. Located in the Genome Valley, about 35 km from Hyderabad, the park has also decided to provide funds for setting up a Science Laboratory at the Zilla Parishad High School, in the adjacent village of Turkapally. At the centre of these enclosures (each of 150 metres), would be located an `Information Centre' on medicinal and aromatic plants and herbs with an information kiosk in the middle of each circle, according to an ICICI Knowledge Park release. From these kiosks, scientists and others can access online and CD-based databases. Several online databases on Indian medicinal plants like the NISCAIR, the traditional knowledge database on 36,000 Indian plants, and the database on medicinal plants of the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources can be sourced. The Information Centre will also maintain an Idea Register. Anyone with an innovative idea can register it. Besides describing the idea briefly, they can throw it open for exploitation, and in the bargain gain priority for the purposes of intellectual property rights (IPR). The Centre will network with leading institutions in the area of medicinal plants like the Lucknow-based Centre for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), the Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) and the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Government Departments of Indian Systems of Medicine (AYUSH), herbal drug industry majors like Dabur, Himalaya Drugs, Ranbaxy, Zandu and NGOs.
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