22 July, 2015

Yoga finds its place in school curriculum; govt states it’s an integral part of education Source: News Bharati English22 Jul 2015 08:34:10



, through its 15 Teacher Education Programmes, Pre-School Education to Elementary Education; Secondary; Senior Secondary; Physical Education; Distance Learning etc”.
The Human Resource Development Ministry has informed that the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005; which is a policy document for the country, recommended Yoga as an integral part of Health and Physical Education, “therefore Yoga is going to come under educational curriculum”, said the official statement.  
The AYUSH Ministry informed, “Yoga Education has been made a compulsory part of study and practice by National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), a statutory body under Ministry of Human Resource Development NCTE has already developed modules on Yoga Education for Diploma in Elementary Education and master of Education. These will be used by more than 18000 Teacher Education Institutions and also 14 Lakh students’ teachers and teacher educators who are studying and teaching in these institutions.  
The Government of India has formulated the programmes and operational measures for promotion of Yoga through AYUSH Mission.
Further, a Task Force has been constituted by the Ministry to deliberate and make recommendations on various important issues concerning the Ministry of AYUSH, including the preferred option for promotion, development and regulation of Yoga & Naturopathy for education and practice

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