Shripad Naik formally inaugurates the North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda & Homoeopathy at Shillong 

The Minister of State for AYUSH Shri Shripad Yesso Naik formally inaugurated the North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda and Homoeopathy (NEIAH), an autonomous Institute under Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India, in Shillong, Meghalaya today. With this, it became the second Ayurvedic College in the North East Region with a Homeopathy college and the only Central Academic Institute of Ayush.
●    Minister of Health & F.W, Govt. of Meghalaya Smt. Roshan Warjri in her speech expressed her gratefulness to the Union government for providing an Institute of this stature which the region has long yearned for. 
●    The Director of NEIAH Prof (Dr) P K Goswami earlier in his inaugural speech said that the Institute will be a unique institution which will be independent and collocated beside NEIGRIHMS with multi-speciality, where education and health care facilities through Ayurveda & Homoeopathy will be provided under one platform.
●    The NEIAH has started functioning with one College of Ayurveda and one College of Homoeopathy from the academic session 2016-17. The Institute admitted 50 candidates each for BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine & Surgery) and BHMS (Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine & Surgery) courses which commenced from 30th   November, 2016.  
●    Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), Shri Vincent Pala; Joint Secretary to Ministry of AYUSH, Shri Anurag Srivastava; Additional Chief Secretary to Government of Meghalaya, Shri Yeshi Tsering and other senior officers of Ministry of AYUSH and the Meghalaya Government were present at the function.