Uttarakhand Ayurved University is a public

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located at

Dehradun Dehradun () is the capital and the List of cities in Uttarakhand by population, most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Dehradun district, district and is governed by the Dehr ...

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; the official name until 2007), is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Devbhumi" (literally 'Land of the Gods') due to its religious significance and ...

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. It was established in 2009 by the

Government of Uttarakhand The Government of Uttarakhand also known as the State Government of Uttarakhand, or locally as State Government, is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttarakhand and its 13 Districts. It consists of an executive branch, led ...

through the ''Uttarakhand Ayurved University Act, 2009''. It focuses on teaching and research of

Ayurveda Ayurveda () is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The theory and practice of Ayurveda is pseudoscientific. Ayurveda is heavily practiced in India and Nepal, where around 80% of the population rep ...

, as well as other areas of AYUSH (Ayurveda,

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Unani Unani or Yunani medicine ( Urdu: ''tibb yūnānī'') is Perso-Arabic traditional medicine as practiced in Muslim culture in South Asia and modern day Central Asia. Unani medicine is pseudoscientific. The Indian Medical Association describes ...

, Siddha medicine and

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). Sunil Kumar Joshi was appointed

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in 2020.

Campuses and affiliated colleges

Other than its main campus in Dehradun the university also has two campuses in

Haridwar Haridwar (; ) is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India. With a population of 228,832 in 2011, it is the second-largest city in the state and the largest in the district. The city is situated on the ri ...

. It has 16

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including 13 Ayurveda colleges, two homeopathic colleges and one Unani college.

References

External links

* Ayurvedic colleges Universities in Uttarakhand Universities and colleges in Dehradun Educational institutions established in 2009 2009 establishments in Uttarakhand {{Uttarakhand-university-stub