Eleven persons in total, including six renown Ayurvedists (Madan Mohan Pathak, Lal Chand Mittal, Suresh Chand, Nirmal Bhatia, Karan Vir Singh, R.D. Gupta) and Five well educated social workers having faith in ancient system of medicine (B.D. Nanda, Santosh Kumar Aggarwal, Ram Murti Mahajan and J.P. Kapoor) formed a Society namely “Shri Dhanwantry Educational Society” on 02.08.1975, which in turn established an Ayurvedic College and named it after Lord Dhanwantry. At that time the College was affiliated to “All India Ayurved Vidyapeeth”. As per provisions of I.M.C.C. Act, 1970, the College started B.A.M.S. course in 1979 and thereafter was affiliated to the Panjab State Faculty of Ayurvedic and Unani System of Medicines, Chandigarh. In 1991 the College was affiliated to the Panjab University but now its affiliated to the Shri Krishna Ayush University, Kurukshetra. The Society got built a spacious building for College, Hospital, Pharmacy and Hostel, on a three acre-plot in Sector 46-B, Chandigarh. |