Hon'ble Cabinet Minister
Ministry of Ayush
&
Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways.
Hon'ble Minister of State
Ministry of Ayush
&
Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Secretary
Ministry of Ayush.
Director cum VC I/C
NIA, Jaipur.
National Institute of Ayurveda is an apex autonomous Institute
under the Ministry of
AYUSH, Government of India for promoting the growth and development of Ayurveda as a model
Institute
for evolving high standards of Teaching, Training, Research, and Patient Care and also to invoke
scientific outlook to the knowledge of Ayurvedic System of Healthcare.
An independent Ayurvedic College was established in August 1946 by the Government of
Rajasthan and this College was merged to form National Institute of Ayurveda known as NIA in
Ayurveda fraternity on 7th February 1976. This was one of the very few Ayurvedic Colleges in the
country to introduce Post-Graduate Education in Ayurveda as early as in 1970
After its establishment in 1976, the Institute has grown tremendously in the field of
Teaching, Training, Research, Patient Care etc., as a result of which it has now 14 Specialties
for
Post-Graduate Education as well as Regular Fellowship Program leading to Ph.D. Apart from this
there
is also Under Graduate course (BAMS), Diploma Course in AYUSH Nursing & Pharmacy and various other
certificate courses.