FOCUS AREAS
"Net Zero Sustainable Solutions
- Goal Development of a database on the consumption and release patterns of toxic heavy metals during preparation of selected herbo-mineral preparations in Rasashastra.
- Goal Development of a scientific database pertaining to chemical composition of selected herbo-mineral preparations in Rasashastra.
- Goal Development of high- performance materials for capturing toxic material emissions at every stage, ensuring net zero emissions in manufacturing processes and regeneration of captured toxic materials into usable products.
"Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development
- Goal Identification of entrepreneurs in AYUSH, pertaining to the domain of Rasashastra via organization of seminars and conferences.
- Goal Support and knowledge enhancement of the identified entrepreneurs via training in sustainable business creation models, adoption of sustainable and advanced technologies in the domain of Rasashastra.
"Device Development
- Development of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for selected herbo-mineral preparations to ensure standardized manufacturing processes.
- Design and development of sustainable, standardized, and automated devices for selected herbomineral preparations in Rasashastra, integration of high-performance materials for net zero emissions, thereby ensuring minimal human intervention and batch uniformity.
- Deployment of hardware and technologies like IoT, advanced sensors, image recognition etc. to facilitate standard production of selected herbo-mineral preparations with optimum quality control and quality assurance parameters.
- Real time validation and testing of developed herbo-mineral preparation devices, essential for widespread acceptance and usage via commercialization.
"Decision Support Systems
- Design and development of integrative frameworks for sustainability assessment of current Ayurvedic medicine preparation procedures, using multi-criterion decision analysis methods like analytical hierarchy process (AHP), technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution method (TOPSIS) etc.
- Design and Development of integrative frameworks for policy interventions pertaining to procurement, production, trade, and export of herbo-mineral products in AYUSH. To enhance the export market of herbo-mineral products, improving the AYUSH export ecosystem in India. Deployment of techniques like AHP, TOPSIS, Fuzzy etc. will be done.
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions
- Identification of gap areas for implementation of AI based solutions in AYUSH for enhancing global appeal.
- Development of AI based solutions for Rasashastra to demonstrate the importance of modern technologies in catapulting AYUSH into global ecosystems with sustainable and standardized results.
"Capacity Building
- Capacity building of Ayurvedic practitioners and students in the domain of standardized machine operations for manufacturing of herbo-mineral preparations and use of innovative and advanced technologies in Ayurvedic engineering. This will be done via organization of seminars, conferences, and training programmes.
- Organization of national and international conferences for knowledge dissemination and outreach in Rasashastra.
