7th World Ayurveda Congress to be held in Kolkata

The 7th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) will be held in Kolkata from 2nd – 4th December, 2016. The Congress is organized by the World Ayurveda Foundation with support of Ministry of AYUSH, and the West Bengal government. The Congress is being held to facilitate development and growth of AYUSH system of medicine. The focus of this year’s edition will be ‘Strengthening the Ayurveda Ecosystem’. This edition’s Ayurveda Congress will be the largest ever when compared with the previous year’s editions held at Kochi (2002), Pune (2006), Jaipur (2008), Bengaluru (2010), Bhopal (2012) and Delhi (2014).