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Sri Darshan Shankar has been awarded with the prestigious Padma Shri Award in the field of Public Affairs, by the Govt. of India, on the occasion of the 61st Republic Day, 26th of January in the year 2011.

‘Padma Shri' is conferred on a citizen of India for distinguished service of the highest order in any field.

Venue: IAIM Health Care Centre, Bangalore
Date: 29th June, 2011

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Venue: IAIM Health Care Centre, Bangalore
Date: 24th March, 2011

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Kannada and Tamil cine artist Ramesh Arvind visited IHC on 24th March ‘2011 to know about the facilities offered by our Healthcare Center.

He visited various Departments of IHC and was very much impressed. He said this to be one of the best Ayurveda Facility he had ever visited.

Venue: IAIM Health Care Centre, Bangalore
Date: 17th March, 2011

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I-AIM Healthcare Center was formally inaugurated by industrialist and great Philanthropist Mr. Ratan Tata Chairman TATA Trust, on 17th of March ‘2011 along with Mr. Sam Pitroda Founder Chairman IAIM-FRLHT.

He was accompanied by dignitaries from several fields.

350 invitees attended the function. The invitees list included well known names like Mr. Mashelkar R.A (National Chemical Laboratory), Mr. Gopalakrishnan (PMO Office), Mr. Gerard C. Bodeker (GC), Mr. Ranganath S. V (Chief Secretary, Govt. of Karnataka), his Excellency Mr. Shekhar Dutt (Governor Chattisghar),
Smt. Sudha Gopalakrishnan (Former Director, National Mission for Manuscripts, Govt of India), Smt. Syeda Hameed (Member (Health), Planning Commission, Govt. of India).

The Inauguration happened at 11 O clock which was followed by a cultural program by the Adishakti group from Pondichery. Padma Shri Darshan Shankar introduced the guests. Later Mr. Ratan Tata and Mr. Sam Pitroda addressed the gathering.

Lunch was arranged for all invitees and staff.

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The Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (IAIM-FRLHT) organized the first ever training program in Trans-Disciplinary Research Methodology for doctoral students of a unique international initiative of organization called ETC-COMPAS called CAPTURED, which expands as Capacity and Theory Building of Universities and Research centers in Endogenous Development of which IAIM-FRLHT is the India partner. This initiative aims to promote better understanding and acceptance of traditional knowledge systems of the world in mainstream educational institutes by supporting doctoral programs in these institutions on topics drawn from Traditional Knowledge Systems.

This 14 day workshop hosted at IAIM campus, Bangalore from 15 to 28 February 2010 exposed the students coming from three different continents viz Ghana in Africa, Bolivia in South America and India-Sri lanka from Asia to methodologies, principles and challenges of doing research in Traditional Knowledge Systems like Ayurveda or African Medicine in a contemporary manner. It involved a field trip to a traditional healer, an organic farm and a traditional dairy farm near Shimoga in Karnataka. The workshop dealt with giving the students a better understanding of the concept of Endogenous Development, a term used to represent the acceptance and use of the traditional knowledge in the community for solving problems of the community through active participation of the community.