Founders's Day Celebrations at Women's College, AMU Aligarh

Governor of Uttarakhand, Mrs. Margret Alva said that our formal education system has operated more for the rich than the poor, for the urban than the rural child, and for the boys than the girls, with the result that, even today, millions of girls representing the rural poor, the scheduled castes and tribes. The minorities and the urban slums, remain out of the educational umbrella.

She observed that the importance of education as a liberating tool to changing the lives of women has been long accepted and from the very beginning of the movement of the Women's liberation, education has been identified as the major instrument.

Mrs. Alva was addressing the Founder's Day programme at the Women's College of the Aligarh Muslim University here today.

A three-day International Conference on Integrative Medicine and 1st SAARC Conference on Unani Medicine at AMU Aligarh

Inaugurating a three-day International Conference on Integrative Medicine and 1^st SAARC Conference on Unani Medicine at AMU, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Mr. S. Gandhiselvan urged the delegates to apply their minds as to how Unani System and the products used therein could be made acceptable internationally while taking stock of the present scenario of research in these systems.

Mr. S. Gandhiselvan has appealed that international cooperation in the area of Indian systems of medicine should be encouraged and great priority should be attached to gathering evidence for these systems.