Ayurvedic medicine is close to hand, cheap and extremely useful medicines with no side effects. Our area is rich in medicinal herbs , which many companies are regularly collecting from forests and making huge profit out of it. But the local Practitioners (Baidya) remain neglected, unrecognized and poor even called as quacks. Thus the traditional knowledge of Ayurvedic/herbal medicine is decaying slowly.

 Looking at this condition we have facilitated a group of Ayurvedic practitioners in Sonepur district; they are trained and encouraged to form their own group—now 67 Baidys are united in a District level forum called Sonepur Jilla Ayurvediya Mahasangha and registered as a society in 2005. they are trained by eminent herbal medicinal Fr. Joseph Chittoor of Karnataka and they are encouraged to plan their action plan to utilize their knowledge & skill in a planned way to cater need of the community and develop their group as an important resource group in the community.