Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
New Delhi: The Ministry of Ayush and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Thursday to promote and collaborate on integrative health research, focusing on identified areas of national importance in healthcare for promoting high impact research to generate evidence utilizing modern scientific methods.
The MoU will also strengthen research capacity through training of Ayush researchers. “Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi has guided us to integrate the benefits of both Traditional and Modern Medicine for the benefit of mankind.
Through the cooperation of ICMR, today, both Ministry of Ayush and Health have taken a very far reaching step in this direction," said Union minister of Ayush Sarbananda Sonowal.
The MoU will enable both parties to jointly establish Ayush-ICMR Centers for advanced research in integrative health at all AIIMS with co-funding.