The fourth World Ayurveda Congress & Arogya Expo, 2010 will be held in the Palace grounds, Bangalore between December 9 and 13 this year. It is being organized by department of Ayush, ministry of health & family welfare, government of India and Vijnana Bharati, government of Karnataka is the co-organizer of this five-day event.

The focal theme for this fourth edition of World Ayurveda Congress is – 'Ayurveda for all' and will bring together stakeholders in the Ayurveda sector from India and abroad.

Organisers said that the fourth World Ayurveda Congress & Arogya Expo, 2010 is special because it is the largest so far in comparison to World Ayurveda Congress previously held – Kochi 2002, Pune 2006 and Jaipur 2008. We expect over 4000 delegates with over 300 international delegates from 34 countries representing the Ayurveda fraternity globally. Students, ayurvedic practitioners, traditional healers, academics, research scientists, policy makers, industry, cultivators and collectors of medicinal plants, agricultural and forestry experts, buyers from overseas, regulators from developed nations and over 500,000 members of society in and around Bangalore interested in Ayurveda – a Way of Life, would converge over a period of five days in Bangalore.

The response to the scientific sessions has seen over 1250 scientific papers of international caliber being considered for presentation in over 60 multi track scientific sessions. Pre Congress workshops on Scientific Writing, Panchakarma, Kshar karma, Afforestation of Medicinal Plants, Mental Health and all matters Ayurveda therein, would be the dialogue.

For the Ayurvedic industry we have a intensive training session on Good Manufacturing Practices as demanded by US FDA, a Buyer Seller Meeting organized by Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council (Pharmexcil) and a conclave of the Centre for Research in Indian Systems of Medicine (CRISM) a joint research platform between Central Council for Research in Ayurveda & Siddha and National Centre of Natural Products Research, University of Mississippi, USA, organisers said.