About Us
WELCOME TO STATE MEDICINAL PLANTS BOARD, HARYANA
The State Medicinal Plants Board (SMPB) Haryana is a government organization under the AYUSH Department. It was established on 13th August 2002 in accordance with the guidelines of the National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) of the Government of India, New Delhi. With the Hon’ble forest minister as its chairman. The mission of SMPB Haryana is to promote and regulate the conservation, development, and sustainable management of valuable medicinal plants in the state, while also improving the livelihoods of farmers through the cultivation of medicinal plants. SMPB (State Medicinal Plants Board) , Haryana is undertaking several projects in the state, including establishment of school herbal gardens, and institutional herbal gardens, establishment of small and modern nurseries, National campaign on Ashwagandha - “A Health promoter”. Additionally, the board is conducting programs like seminar, training programs to raise awareness among students and the public.
For development
of the Medicinal Plants Sector throughout India, Govt. of India vide its D.O. No.Z-18020/6/2001/-M.
P. Cell dated 04/06/2001 suggested to establish such a board at state
level. In compliance to this instructions received from Government of India,
State Medicinal Plants Board-Haryana was constituted at Panchkula on
13.08.2002, and is functioning under National Medicinal Plants Board, Ministry
of AYUSH Government of India under the administrative jurisdiction of Principal
Chief Conservator of Forests, Haryana. With the time and in view of the scope
of medicinal plants in public health particularly in rural areas, the board was
re-notified under the Adminstrative Control of Health & AYUSH Department,
Haryana vide Notification No. 9/21/2019-6HBII, dated
29.10.2020.
The Administrative structure of
the SMPB, AYUSH, Haryana is as follows:
|
Sr.No |
Designation |
Status in Board |
|
1. |
Chief Secretary, Haryana |
Chairman |
|
2. |
Additional Chief Secretary to Govt.
of Haryana, Health & AYUSH Department |
Member |
|
3. |
Additional Chief Secretary to Govt.
of Haryana, Agriculture Department |
Member |
|
4. |
Additional Chief Secretary to Govt.
of Haryana, Forest Department |
Member |
|
5. |
Principal Chief Conservator of
Forests, Haryana, Panchkula |
Member |
|
6. |
Director General Health Services,
Haryana |
Member |
|
7. |
Director AYUSH, Haryana |
Member |
|
8. |
Representative of Vice Chancellor,
Agriculture University, Hisar |
Member |
|
9. |
Representative of Vice Chancellor,
Shri Krishna AYUSH University,
Kurukshetra |
Member |
|
10 |
Director General AYUSH cum Chief
Executive Officer, SMPB, Haryana |
Member Secretary |
The working of the board are
operation under the control of Nodal Officer appointed by Director General
AYUSH, Haryana for better implementations of schemes and working of staff.
The
aim of the SMPB is to co-ordinate matters relating to the Cultivation,
Conservation, Research & Development and Promotion of medicinal plants
sector in the State. Very often the objectives of biodiversity conservation do
not allow commercial harvesting of Medicinal Plants. Day by day more and more
areas getting covered by some kind of legal provisions aiming at biodiversity
or wildlife conservation. With the ongoing efforts of biodiversity and wildlife
conservation, the natural habitat for medicinal plants may expand but the
actual commercial harvesting of medicinal plants from such areas would get
shrunk. Emergence of interest in herbal plants based health care taking drugs,
have increased demands for medicinal plants on one hand and unsustainable
collection of herbal plants from wild have resulted in some of the plants
species posing serious threat of extinction. Conservation and Development of
rare, endangered and highly utilized medicinal plants is very much needed due
to the over exploitation of natural resources. Cultivation of medicinal plants
over non-conservation area such as private land, community land and waste land
will only solve problem of availability of raw material to meet the market
demand in future.
Initiative
has been taken by SMPB, AYUSH, Haryana regarding the forward and backward
linkage of medicinal plants by providing suitable market to the growers and
buyers of medicinal plants and also, integrated projects for the Post Harvest
Management system are also in pipeline.
