Ramchandra Pandurang Vaidya, also known as Dada Vaidya (8 September 1859 - 6 March 1947) was a Goan ayurvedic practitioner, based in Keri, Ponda, Goa.^[1] He used to extract medicines from various plants in Goa and administer them to ailing persons.

Though the Portuguese Government was advocating Allopathic medicines by law, Vaidya had the privilege of Portuguese officers as he treated their family members who had lost hopes of curing by adopting allopathic medicines successfully. The Portuguese government at the central square of Ponda city to show their gratitude for him erected a statue of Dada Vaidya.^[2]

In 1911, Vaidya with Sitaram Kerkar and Vinayak Sarjyotishi founded the Goa Vidyaprasarak Mandal and its first institution, A.J. de Almeida High School, in the Ponda taluk of central Goa.^[3]

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