Functions of the Institute
- Development of the Institute as an apex human resource development centre of Sowa-Rigpa medicine knowledge with linkages to the current health care system.
- To generate public awareness about the potential of Sowa-Rigpa medicine practices in disease, prevention and health promotion.
- To develop linkages with other academic and research institutions in different parts of India and abroad.
- To publish journals, research papers, brochures, newsletters and text books and to have a documentation and resource centre and maintenance of libraries with latest information services.
- To conduct intra-mural and extra-mural research on all aspects of Sowa-Rigpa and interdisciplinary research in medicine and sciences related to Sowa-Rigpa.
- To cooperate with national and international agencies engaged in research, capacity building, documentation, validation, preservation and practice of Sowa-Rigpa.
- To subscribe to, become a member of, cooperate with or work in coordination with any other association or society in India or abroad whose objectives are similar to those of the institute.
- To develop a comprehensive database of knowledge regarding Sowa-Rigpa system of medicine, local health practices institutions, and personalities involved in these fields.
- To create administrative, technical, ministerial, and other posts under the Institute and to make appointments thereto in accordance with the rules and regulations of the institute.
- To accept grants, gifts, donations, securities, and movable or immovable property of any kind either from the Central Government or State Government/Union Territory for the furtherance of the objectives of the institute.
- To issue appeals and apply for money and funds in the furtherance of the objectives of the institute and to raise or collect funds by gifts, donation, subscriptions, securities, and movable or immovable property and grant such rights and privileges to the donors, subscribers, and other benefactors as the institute may consider fit.
- To acquire, purchase, exchange, lease, hire, or otherwise, however, any property, movable or immovable, which may be necessary or convenient for running the Institute and build, construct, improve, alter, demolish, and repair such buildings, works, and construction as may be necessary for carrying out the objects of the institute.
- To create an interface between traditional healers and research institutions to explore and validate their claims.
- To create a platform for the generation of economic opportunities growth through documentation, sustainable harvesting of natural resources, cultivation of medicinal plants, setting up drug manufacturing, and community health faculties of traditional and Sowa-Rigpa medicine.
- To conduct such academic or other courses as may be required from time to time.
- To invest and deal with the funds of the institute.
- To prescribe courses and curricula.
- To train teachers in the Sowa-Rigpa System of Medicine.
- To hold examinations and grant degrees.
- In order to promote the said objectives to perform such other functions as necessary.