[Assam] Mobile herbal hospital inaugurated at Golaghat (The Assam Tribune, 23.11.2007)

[Buljit Buragohain]

Mobile herbal hospital inaugurated at Golaghat
>From Our Correspondent
 GOLAGHAT, Nov 22 – A mobile herbal medicine (Banausadhi) hospital-cum-exhibition titled ‘Banausadhi Rath’ was recently inaugurated by the MP of Kaliabor constituency Deep Gogoi.

Installed in a 709 mini-bus by Gunaram Khanikar, a wellknown herbal medicine specialist of Golaghat Tetelitol, the cost entailed in the project is around Rs 13 lakhs which was provided by Deep Gogoi from his MP’s local area development fund.

A meeting on the occasion was held under the presidentship of Azit Bordoloi, Chief Executive Officer of Golaghat Zila Parishad and was addressed by Debo Kumar Nath, ADC of Jorhat, Biren Phukan, project director of Golaghat DRDA Dr Suren Chandra Nath prominant scientist of the North Eastern Institute of science and Technology (NEIST) at Jorhat, and Pratap Kachari, deputy chief executive officer of Thengal-Kachari Autonomous Council.

The speakers highlighted the importance, significance and use of herbal medicines. They urged the people to identify the plants and herbs which could be used as herbal medicines. They further lauded Gunaram Khanikar for starting a mobile herbal hospital.

Earlier, Gunaram Khanikar delivered his welcome address to all those present at the meeting. Upen Dutta, who is an educationist and president of the Journalist Guild of Golaghat district addressed the meeting and highlighted the manifold achievements of Gunaram Khanikar. 

Biren Phukan, project director of DRDA assured Khanikar of financial help in construction of the training room at his herbal medicine garden. 

Earlier, Diganta Bora, convenor of the meeting explained the objectives. Dugdha Dutta subsequently offered the vote of thanks.

 


  (The Assam Tribune,23.11.2007)



বুলজিৎ  বুঢ়াগোহাঁই
       
---------------------------------
 Meet people who discuss and share your passions.  Join them now.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://assamnet.org/pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/attachments/20071123/604f4d75/attachment.html