Lok Sabha Question No. 3381 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-08-05
Subject: Herbal Gardens by NMPB
Ministry: AYURVEDA,YOGA & NATUROPATHY,UNANI,SIDDHA AND HOMEOPATHY (AYUSH)
Asked by: Geetha Viswanath Vanga

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AYUSH

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3381 ANSWERED ON 05 th  AUGUST, 2022

## Herbal Gardens by NMPB

## 3381. SHRIMATI VANGA GEETHA VISWANATH:

Will the Minister of AYUSH be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  funds  allocated  to  establishing  herbal  gardens  by  the  National  Medicinal Plants Board in the last five years;
- (b) the details of the herbal garden projects supported across the country under the scheme during each of the last five years, State-wise; and
- (c) the details of funds sanctioned and allocated for the projects for the said time period?

## ANSWER THE MINISTER OF AYUSH (SHRI SARBANANDA SONOWAL)

(a) to (c) :  Presently,  the  'National  Medicinal  Plants  Board',  Ministry  of  AYUSH  is implementing  a  'Central  Sector  Scheme  on  Conservation,  Development  and  Sustainable Management of  Medicinal Plants' throughout the country under which there is a provision to provide project based support to various Government and Non-Government organizations to develop  different  types  of  Herbal  Gardens  viz.  Home  Herbal  Gardens,  School  Herbal Gardens,  Institutional/  Public  Herbal  Gardens  and  Herbal  Gardens  of  State  and  National importance.  NMPB  has  sanctioned  81  projects  of  total  sanctioned  amount  of  Rs.3145.86 Lakhs.The details of projects along with funds sanctioned for establishing herbal gardens by the National Medicinal Plants Board in the last five years are placed at Annexure - I.

Annexure-I

State  wise  details  of  the  herbal  garden  projects  supported  across  the  country  under  the Central Sector Scheme during the last five years (2017-18 to 2021-22):

|   S.No | Year    | State       | Title of the project                                                                                                  |   Sanctioned amount (Rs. In lakh) |
|--------|---------|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|      1 | 2017-18 | Assam       | Establishment of Herbal Garden at Panbari, Kokrajhar District of Assam                                                |                             21.6  |
|      2 | 2017-18 | Rajasthan   | Home Herbal Garden                                                                                                    |                              2.5  |
|      3 | 2017-18 | TamilNadu   | Setting up of Institutional/ Public Herbal Gardens                                                                    |                             27    |
|      4 | 2017-18 | TamilNadu   | Promotion of School Herbal Gardens and Home Herbal Gardens                                                            |                             72.05 |
|      5 | 2017-18 | TamilNadu   | Setting up of Institutional/ Public Herbal Gardens                                                                    |                             27    |
|      6 | 2017-18 | TamilNadu   | Promotion of School Herbal Gardens and Home Herbal Gardens                                                            |                             65.5  |
|      7 | 2017-18 | Uttarakhand | Establishment of Home Herbal Gardens selected Regions of River Ganga basin in Uttarakhand                             |                              1.25 |
|      8 | 2017-18 | Uttarakhand | Establishment of Home& School Herbal Gardens in Villages Selected for development of Ganga Grams in Uttarakhand State |                             12.71 |
|      9 | 2017-18 | West Bengal | Integrated Development of Herbal (Medicinal &Aromatic Plants) Garden at BCKV, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal            |                              5.4  |
|     10 | 2017-18 | West Bengal | Kalyani University' Herbal Garden                                                                                     |                              5.4  |
|     11 | 2017-18 | Delhi       | Establishment of traditional knowledge demo herbal lawn at New Motibagh residential Campus                            |                              3    |
|     12 | 2017-18 | Kerala      | Herbal Plants &Home Remedies                                                                                          |                             39    |
|     13 | 2017-18 | Kerala      | Establishment of Herbal Garden in Selected 50 Schools each in Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta                            |                             13.25 |

|    |         |                   | Dist. Of Kerala                                                                                                                                      |       |
|----|---------|-------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------|
| 14 | 2017-18 | Madhya Pradesh    | Rural Health Solutions (Promoting Herbal Gardens in rural Schools)                                                                                   | 26.5  |
| 15 | 2017-18 | Madhya Pradesh    | Urban Health Solutions (promoting herbal gardens in urban area of Goa)                                                                               |  7    |
| 16 | 2017-18 | Tamil Nadu        | 'Promotion of selected medicinal plants useful in human body system in Schools and Colleges of Madurai Dist                                          | 26.5  |
| 17 | 2017-18 | Uttarakhand       | Establishment of Herbal Garden for promotion of medicinal plants through participation of Educational Institutions in Dist. Uttarakashi, Uttarakhand | 13.25 |
| 18 | 2017-18 | Uttar Pradesh     | Establishment of herbal garden of medicinal plants at the Schools and Training Programme of Basti Sadar - Block, District Basti, U.P.- 272190.       |  5.3  |
| 19 | 2018-19 | Arunachal Pradesh | "Establishment of Herbal Garden and MAP nursery"                                                                                                     |  6.25 |
| 20 | 2018-19 | Assam             | Creation of North-East Indian Zingiberales biodiversity garden (Gene Bank) in RFRI, Assam                                                            | 18.87 |
| 21 | 2018-19 | Delhi             | "Establishment of Herbal Garden in JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS".                                                                                   |  5.94 |
| 22 | 2018-19 | Kerala            | "Establishment of medicinal plants Demonstration garden at ESI (C.D) Hospital, Mulamkuinnathukavu, Thrissur".                                        | 10.8  |
| 23 | 2018-19 | Kerala            | "Establishment of Herbal Garden/ Park at Oushadhi Sub- Centre Pariyaram, Kannur"                                                                     | 27    |
| 24 | 2018-19 | Maharashtra       | Establishment of model herbal garden for medicinal and aromatic plants."                                                                             | 10.8  |
| 25 | 2018-19 | Manipur           | "Establishment of State Herbal Garden at 'Kangla Fort' Imphal, Manipur'                                                                              | 27.6  |

|   26. | 2018-19   | Nagaland      | "Establishment of Medicinal Herbal Gardens at Kisama Heritage Village, Kohima district and Longleng district hospital in Nagaland"     |   16.20 |
|-------|-----------|---------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------|
|    27 | 2018-19   | Nagaland      | "School Herbal Garden"                                                                                                                 |  53     |
|    28 | 2018-19   | Punjab        | Creation of School Herbal Garden in the area lying under Extension Forest Division, Bathinda, Punjab.                                  |  33.92  |
|    29 | 2018-19   | Punjab        | Creation of School Herbal Gardens in the area lying under Extension Division, Patiala, Punjab.                                         |  42.4   |
|    30 | 2018-19   | Punjab        | Creation of School Herbal Garden in the area lying under Extension Forest Division, Phillaur.                                          |  46.64  |
|    31 | 2018-19   | Punjab        | Establishment of herbal garden for Health Sciences Students at University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, Faridkot" |   0.528 |
|    32 | 2018-19   | Rajasthan     | "School Herbal Garden"                                                                                                                 |   5.3   |
|    33 | 2018-19   | Rajasthan     | "School Herbal Garden"                                                                                                                 |  53     |
|    34 | 2018-19   | Rajasthan     | "School Herbal Garden"                                                                                                                 |   0.5   |
|    35 | 2018-19   | Telangana     | "Establishment of Herbal Gardens at EPTRI campus with Medicinal and Aromatic plants"                                                   |   5.4   |
|    36 | 2018-19   | Uttarakhand   | "Establishment of herbal garden at Uttarakhand Ayurved University for conservation and promotion of medicinal and aromatic plants".    |   8.1   |
|    37 | 2018-19   | Uttar Pradesh | Development of Herbal Garden in Department of Pharmacy, MJP Rohailkhand University, Bareilly (UP)"                                     |   5.76  |
|    38 | 2018-19   | Maharashtra   | Herbal Garden                                                                                                                          |   5.4   |
|    39 | 2018-19   | Uttarakhand   | Establishment of Herbal Gardens for Promotion of Medicinal Plant through the Participation of Educational                              |   5.3   |

|    |         |                | Institutions in District Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand                                                                                                            |        |
|----|---------|----------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------|
| 40 | 2018-19 | Delhi          | Herbal Garden in Government &private Schools of GNCT of Delhi                                                                                                  |  13.25 |
| 41 | 2019-20 | Assam          | Herbal Garden, Nursery                                                                                                                                         |  15.9  |
| 42 | 2019-20 | Delhi          | Establishment of herbal garden and utilization of herbal plants for value added food products.                                                                 |   0.45 |
| 43 | 2019-20 | Telangana      | Establishment of Institutional Herbal Garden with Medicinal and Aromatic Plants at TSFCRI Campus".                                                             |   5.4  |
| 44 | 2019-20 | Uttarakhand    | "Establishment of herbal garden at Charak International Research Centre for Ayurveda (Kotdwar) for conservation and promotion of medicinal and aromatic plants |  16.2  |
| 45 | 2019-20 | Uttarakhand    | Promotion of Medicinal Plants through exclusive school herbal gardens in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand.                                                  |   5.3  |
| 46 | 2019-20 | Uttar Pradesh  | Development of Herbal Garden for commercially important Medicinal Plants                                                                                       |   5.4  |
| 47 | 2020-21 | Maharashtra    | Establishment of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants "MAPA" Garden                                                                                                   |   4.04 |
| 48 | 2020-21 | Uttar Pradesh  | Establishment of Herbal Garden.                                                                                                                                |  21.6  |
| 49 | 2020-21 | Telanagana     | Establishment of Institutional Herbal Garden and Aromatic Plants at Palamuru University Campus                                                                 |  10.66 |
| 50 | 2020-21 | Andhra Pradesh | Development Of Home Herbal Gardens To Promote The Primary Herbal Care System In Rural / Urban Areas In Andhra Pradesh                                          | 325    |
| 51 | 2020-21 | Uttar Pradesh  | Development of National Herbal Garden for Pharmacopoeial Species.                                                                                              | 295.22 |
| 52 | 2020-21 | Assam          | 135 Eco Task Force Herbal Garden in BangaldobaNayekgaon, Assam                                                                                                 |  27    |
| 53 | 2020-21 | Assam          | Collection, Conservation And                                                                                                                                   |   4.2  |

|    |         |                  | Maintenance Of Locally Available Medicinal And Aromatic Plants                                                                                                                                         |        |
|----|---------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------|
| 54 | 2020-21 | Andhra Pradesh   | Establishment Of Herbal Garden At Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (Women's University), Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh                                                                                  |  10.8  |
| 55 | 2020-21 | Karnataka        | "Institutional Herbal Garden" at University of Horticultural Sciences, Udyangiri, Bagalkot                                                                                                             |   9.6  |
| 56 | 2020-21 | Kerala           | Establishment of Institutional Medicinal plant garden in 10 hectare at Pariyaram, Kannur, Kerala                                                                                                       |  27    |
| 57 | 2020-21 | Kerala           | Establishment of a Medicinal Plant Seed Centre cum Seed Museum at Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Thrissur, Kerala.                                                                          | 207.74 |
| 58 | 2020-21 | Madhya Pradesh   | Development of Herbal Garden of State Importance"                                                                                                                                                      | 125    |
| 59 | 2020-21 | Uttarakhand      | Establishment of herbal garden for promotion of medicinal plants sector in Uttarakhand                                                                                                                 |  27    |
| 60 | 2020-21 | Uttar Pradesh    | Establishment of Herbal Garden To Conserve Medicinal Plants                                                                                                                                            |  21.6  |
| 61 | 2020-21 | Kerala           | Urban Home Herbal Gardens in Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerala through Grow bag Cultivation: An Innovative Approach by Ex-situ Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plants for Primary Health Care. |  12.5  |
| 62 | 2020-21 | Maharashtra      | Promotion of Medicinal Plants for Healthy Life                                                                                                                                                         |   2.5  |
| 63 | 2021-22 | Assam            | Blazing Sword Herbal Gardens" in Missamari, Assam                                                                                                                                                      |  53.46 |
| 64 | 2021-22 | Himachal Pradesh | Establishment Of Institutional Herbal Garden At CSIR-IHBT, Palampur                                                                                                                                    |  27    |
| 65 | 2021-22 | Himachal Pradesh | Setting up of Herbal Garden in schools under Education Department of Himachal                                                                                                                          |  72.08 |

|    |         |             | Pradesh.                                                                                                                                                      |         |
|----|---------|-------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------|
| 66 | 2021-22 | Karnataka   | Establishment of a Taxonomy - based Medicinal Plants Garden at Manasagangotri Campus, University of Mysore, Mysuru, Karnataka                                 |  27     |
| 67 | 2021-22 | Telangana   | Establishment of a Herbal Garden at TTWR Sainik School, Ashoknagar, Warangal, Telangana, India with an aim to conserve gradual depleting herbal plant species |  19.2   |
| 68 | 2021-22 | Uttarakhand | Thematic Therapeutic And Distinguish Designed Herbal Garden Of National/State Importance                                                                      |  21.6   |
| 69 | 2021-22 | Jharkhand   | Establishment of Institutional Herbal Garden at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Deoghar                                                      |   3.84  |
| 70 | 2021-22 | Kerala      | School Herbal Garden                                                                                                                                          |   6.25  |
| 71 | 2021-22 | Karnataka   | Establishing Public Herbal Gardens in 100 Tree Parks in Karnataka                                                                                             | 540     |
| 72 | 2021-22 | Karnataka   | Establishing 500 Herbal Gardens in Residential schools run by Karnataka Residential Educational Institutions Society, Government of Karnataka                 | 265     |
| 73 | 2021-22 | Tamil Nadu  | Conservation and Establishment of Medicinal Plant Garden: Using Biodiversity for Human Well Being.                                                            |   3.636 |
| 74 | 2021-22 | Tamil Nadu  | Promoting Awareness And Scientific Knowledge On Medicinal Plants Among Higher Secondary School Children In Tirunelveli District Of Tamil Nadu                 |  10.92  |
| 75 | 2021-22 | Uttarakhand | Establishment Of Herbal Garden For Promotion Of Traditional High Altitude Medicinal Plants In Uttarakhand                                                     |  21.6   |
| 76 | 2021-22 | Assam       | Setting up of herbal garden in Dibrugarh University                                                                                                           |  27     |
| 77 | 2021-22 | Manipur     | Establishment of 100 School                                                                                                                                   |  53     |

|       |         |         | Herbal Garden at 16 districts of Manipur                                                                                                                                                                                     |         |
|-------|---------|---------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------|
| 78.   | 2021-22 | Kerala  | Development of medicinal plants garden by Amala Ayurvedic Hospital and Research Centre.                                                                                                                                      |    4.2  |
| 79.   | 2021-22 | Assam   | Development of Herbal Garden on Rare, Endangered and Threatened medicinal and aromatic plants of North east India                                                                                                            |   10.8  |
| 80.   | 2021-22 | Gujarat | Project Proposal Establishment of School Herbal Gardens to Promote use of Medicinal Plants for Primary Health Care at the School Level in Mehsana, Banaskantha, Patan and Gandhinagar District (North Zone) of Gujarat State |    9.75 |
| 81.   | 2021-22 | Gujarat | Promoting Herbal Garden in Schools                                                                                                                                                                                           |   13.25 |
| Total | Total   | Total   | Total                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | 3145.86 |