This Kendra (centre) looks after a globally critical issue; viz. biodiversity and intellectual property rights over traditional knowledge of the people of India. It fosters the conservation of medicinal herbs and documentation of medicinal knowledge about various flora. The Hindu tradition of medicine says that "naasti moolam anaushadham" i.e. there is no herb without a medicinal element. India being a home to 45,000 known species of plants; the task before this Kendra is gigantic and challenging.