Minister of Human Resource Development, Smriti Irani proposed Yoga to be a compulsory part of the academics for Classes VI to X for Central government run schools. Inaugurating the first yoga conference organized by the CBSE and releasing the NCERT prepared syllabus and course material for students, Irani said that schools can opt for Yoga as a subject with 80 percent as practicals where students have to perform various asanas. Smriti Irani also said that a training module on yoga would also be established for teacher education programme as well.
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