Prez inaugurates ‘Arogya Vanam’

New Delhi, March 1 (Agency) President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday inaugurated the newly-developed ‘Arogya Vanam’ at the President’s Estate here, in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Spread in 6.6 acres, the Arogya Vanam has been developed in the shape of a human sitting in the Yoga Mudra. It consists of around 215 herbs and plants used for therapeutic purposes in Ayurveda,” the President’s Secretariat said in a statement here.

Some of the other features of this Vanam are water fountains, Yoga platform, water channel, lotus pond and a view point, it added. The concept of Arogya Vanam has been conceived with the aim of publicising the importance of Ayurvedic plants and their effects on human body, it said. This Vanam will now be open for public, added the statement.