Goa Governor Mridula Sinha inaugurated the two days international seminar on ‘JARA- A Focus On Geriatric Disorders’ organized by Bharatiy Sanskrit Prabodhini’s Gomantak Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya Shiroda at Kala Academy in city on August 30.

While speaking on the occasion Dr Sinha said growing old was inevitable and could not be stopped but ageing could be made happy and graceful by finding solutions to geriatric disorders. Dr Sinha said India had the legacy of Ayurveda as most of the aged people from rural areas used to consume herbs and medicinal plants as their medicines. ''Recently many people are engaged in the task of undertaking research in Ayurveda,'' she observed, adding this would help the people in future. 

Union Minister of state for AYUSH (Independent Charge) Shripad Naik, while addressing the gathering appreciated the organizers for organizing seminar on an important topic related to senior citizens. He said presently Ayurveda was considered as alternative medicine and appealed to the stakeholders to work hard to make Ayurveda main stream medicine as it did not have side effects.

Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly Dr Pramod Sawant expressed happiness over the endeavor of the organizers of the seminar for showing their concern towards the problem of old people. ''The geriatric disorders in human being makes old age painful,'' Dr Sawant said, adding if the researchers of Ayurveda discovered solution to the problem, old age would become happy and graceful phase in people’s lives. Professor Varun Sahni, Vice-Chancellor, Goa University also spoke on the occasion.