An
ayurvedic college was established by the erstwhile state of Jaipur in 1946
AD to provide intearated. curative and preventive health care to the
people of the Pink City, which today has been elevated to the status of
the National Institute for Ayurvedic Education, Research, and Disease
Treatment. Situated on the out skirts of the walled city, on Amer Road In
a beautiful palatial complex - Madhav Vilas, it covers an area of 10
acres.
The Institute has 13 departments of medicine and an
attached hospital (Arogyashala) where courses of Post Graduate level are
being conducted. The college has a fine collection of dry medicinal plants
which Includes roots, seeds, flowers and barks. Within the premises Is
their own pharmacy which manufactures herbal and vegetable drugs.