Sowa-Rigpa is a traditional Tibetan system of medicine practised in India’s Himalayan belt. It is popular in Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal’s Darjeeling, Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh
Current Affairs:India and China are at loggerheads over the heritage of perhaps the most established arrangement of customary medication, known as Sowa-Rigpa, which has likenesses with Ayurveda.
India has looked for acknowledgment of the old restorative custom as its “elusive social legacy”, a case challenged by China at a worldwide gathering, sources said.
Sowa-Rigpa is a customary Tibetan arrangement of medication rehearsed in India’s Himalayan belt. It is well known in Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal’s Darjeeling, Himachal Pradesh and the Union Territory of Ladakh.
“India has moved toward the UNESCO looking for enrolling of the Sowa Rigpa as its ‘immaterial social legacy’. China has brought up criticism regarding it,” an authority said.
An Indian designation is unequivocally pushing the nation’s application dependent on point by point reports and proof gave by the AYUSH Ministry which has been working intimately with the Ministry of External Affairs on the issue, authorities said.
The move comes in the setting of the Modi government advancing the conventional drug framework, one of the most established enduring prescription frameworks on the planet.
The Union Cabinet on November 20 endorsed the setting up of the National Institute for Sowa-Rigpa (NISR) in Leh as a self-ruling association.
This is maybe one of the primary choices taken by the Union Cabinet on Ladakh’s advancement after it turned into a Union Territory on October 31 after the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir.
Aditi Mehta 