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SHRI CHANDRA SHEKHAR : Mr. Speaker, Sir, I know Vidya ji personally. He has undertaken research on it for about 15-20 years. Problem is what hon’ble Minister is stating. Research on Ayurveda is not research in real terms to our scientists. Unless and untill you remove this stumbling block, you may constitute a committee of highly renowned persons but both would never agree. Ayurvedic physicians are hesitant and scared if they reveal the formulations and make them public then other people might make use of them and they would be deprived of the facilities. Perhaps, hon’ble Minister must be knowing that our President has ensured some facilities to them in Kerala but it is regrettable that the Government is still going by the views of certain scientists and they are not being extended those facilities which they actually need. We accord high respect to the Scientists. Indian Ayurveda has got thousand years of experience. In view of that if some rules need to be amended, they should be so as to give them necessary facilities.

SHRI CHANDRA SHEKHAR : Mr. Speaker, Sir, is the hon’ble Minister aware that 13 patients were administered drugs in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences under their observation and all of them showed signs of improvements. There are reports to this effect. The then Health Minister made a recommendation in this regard however it was not accepted. Process patent is very important but once the process is revealed then people can know other related aspects, that much knowledge we, who are not scientists, also possess. Therefore, if you go by the scientists then, no research has been undertaken on Ayurveda anywhere in the world. If India goes by what the world says then it would loose its own identity.