The National Medicinal Plants Board, under the Ministry of Ayush, is implementing a Central Sector Scheme to conserve, develop, and sustainably manage medicinal plants across the country, including the Union Territory of Ladakh.
As part of this initiative, a project proposal titled “Establishment of Herbal Garden” has been sanctioned for Rs. 1.35 lakhs at the Central Institute for Buddhist Studies (CIBS) in Leh, Ladakh.
Additionally, a project focused on the conservation status, germplasm collection, and resource augmentation of priority medicinal plants in Ladakh’s cold deserts has been established with a sanctioned amount of Rs. 156.84 lakhs. This project is being implemented by the Himalayan Forest Research Institute (HFRI) and National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa (NISR), Leh, Ladakh.
Furthermore, an ongoing Research & Development project is being supported at NISR, Leh, Ladakh, focusing on the cultivation of endangered and commercially viable medicinal plants of the Trans Himalaya region and the production of quality germplasm, with a sanctioned amount of Rs. 39.686 lakhs.
This information was shared by Minister of State (IC) for Ayush, Prataprao Jadhav in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.
