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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Wednesday (February 25, 2026) inaugurated the International Research Institute of Ayurveda (IRIA) astatine Kalliad successful Kannur, declaring it the country’s archetypal broad centre for Ayurveda probe and calling for corporate enactment to elevate it into a globally recognised institution.
The Chief Minister said Kerala had secured respective “firsts” successful the country, including constitution of India’s Digital University, the upcoming Digital Science Park, and the transshipment larboard astatine Vizhinjam. He added akin imaginativeness and nationalist backing were indispensable to make IRIA into a world-class probe hub successful accepted medicine.
He said Kerala indispensable beforehand confidently successful the technological epoch by integrating accepted cognition with modern probe infrastructure. Referring to institutions specified arsenic the Graphene Innovation Centre, Water Metro, Genome Data Centre, Space Park( K-Space), and the upcoming Fire Force Academy, helium added the State’s translation was rooted successful a knowledge-driven approach.
The Chief Minister underscored the request to recognise and collaborate with skilled accepted healers, whose experiential cognition could fortify young researchers. While cautioning against fraudulent practices, helium said it would beryllium unfair to disregard each accepted practitioners.
“Kerala has galore competent Ayurveda scholars who indispensable beryllium identified and respected,” helium said, urging an open-minded attack from institutions and the AYUSH Ministry.
He noted that respective Ayurveda graduates lacked applicable cognition of medicinal plants and formulations beyond prepared medicines. Identifying, preserving, and cultivating medicinal plants should go a priority, helium said, adding that the institute’s herbal plot would beryllium expanded substantially, adjacent utilising further onshore if required.
Highlighting the secrecy surrounding accepted aesculapian knowledge, helium said invaluable formulations were mislaid implicit generations due to the fact that they were not documented. Integrating specified inherited contented with technological validation would fortify Ayurveda successful the modern era, helium added.
The authorities has decided to found a model wrong the institute to accord peculiar designation to accepted practitioners and indigenous systems of medicine, helium said. The Chief Minister besides launched the IRIA website connected the occasion.
Presiding implicit the function, Health Minister Veena George described the juncture arsenic a landmark successful the past of healthcare and Ayurveda successful Kerala. The institute would beforehand evidence-based probe successful Ayurveda and pull planetary world collaboration, she said and added that the Malabar Cancer Centre had expressed involvement successful integrative crab research, portion a assemblage successful Japan had shown willingness for world cooperation.
Additional Chief Secretary (Health and AYUSH ) Dr. Rajan N. Khobragade presented the report. MP. V. Sivadasan, MLA K.K. Shailaja, and different elected representatives and officials attended the function.
