Efforts are on to turn Arunachal Pradesh’s Keyi Panyor into India’s first Bio-Happiness district

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Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chairperson, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Principal Advisor, National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme(NTEP), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, delivering the keynote code  astatine  the inauguration of ‘The Hindu Sustainability Dialogues’ astatine  Saveetha  Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences connected  January 6, 2026

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chairperson, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Principal Advisor, National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme(NTEP), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, delivering the keynote code astatine the inauguration of ‘The Hindu Sustainability Dialogues’ astatine Saveetha  Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences connected January 6, 2026 | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj

Soumya Swaminathan, Chairperson of M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation and Principal Advisor of National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), inaugurated ‘The Hindu Sustainability Dialogues’, a one-day acme being held astatine Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences successful Chennai connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026).

The Hindu Sustainability Dialogues, successful concern with Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), brought unneurotic starring academics, taxable substance experts, policymakers and manufacture stakeholders for a dialog connected sustainability. 

The main impermanent of the lawsuit held astatine Saveetha Medical College, Thandalam, Chennai, Dr. Sowmya Swaminathan was felicitated by L.V. Navaneeth, CEO, The Hindu Group and N.M. Veeraiyan, Founder and Chancellor, SIMATS.

In her keynote address, Ms. Swaminathan said the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation volition revive the conception of Bio-Happiness, a word coined by precocious M.S. Swaminathan, successful his centenary year. A task to person the newest territory of Keyi Panyor of Arunachal Pradesh into India’s archetypal Bio-Happiness territory has begun, she added.

She went connected to authorities that accepted AI is bully with representation designation and tin assistance standard up the already existing platforms of app-based works clinics. Generative AI could beryllium adjuvant successful galore fields arsenic good but caution indispensable beryllium taken against spreading misinformation and disinformation, particularly deepfakes, Dr. Swaminathan added.

Published - January 06, 2026 04:01 p.m. IST

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