With the Haryana Government deciding to include Yoga and moral education in the school curriculum, Haryana Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma on Monday constituted Guidance Board and Education Advisory Committee, that includes RSS ideologue Dinanath Batra as member.
“The committee members include well-known educationist of Vidya Bharti, Dinanath Batra as patron, Gita Manishi, Swami Gyananand and Gurukul Pataudi, Acharya Dharam Dev, the Education Minister said. Stating that the Government wanted to provide "simple and accessible education", Sharma said "verses of the holy Gita are being made part of the school syllabus in order to make our children cultured and virtuous".
Meanwhile, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal said that the International Yoga Day would be celebrated at Karnal onJune 21 and about 21,000 youngsters would participate in it. Presiding over a meeting organised in this regard here, he said discussions would be held with Yoga Guru, Swami Ramdev for the success of International Yoga Day in the state. The Chief Minister said that Swami Ramdev who has been made the brand ambassador to promote Yoga and Ayurveda in the state would be given the status of Cabinet Minister and a function would be organized to honour him on April 21 at Panchkula.
After that, a meeting will also be held with Swami Ramdev. The Chief Minister has assigned various duties to various heads of departments in order to make the function of 'International Yoga Day' a success. He directed to carry out appropriate steps to make elaborate arrangements for success of the Yoga Day. Education Minister, Ram Bilas Sharma suggested setting a dress code for students which was unanimously accepted by all in the meeting. Sports and Youth Affairs Minister, Anil Vij said that the International Yoga Day would be celebrated in a big way in the state. In Haryana, Karnal has been identified to celebrate this day as it lies in the centre of the state. Apart from this, different programmes would be organized at all district headquarters on this occasion.
Vij said that alongwith common people, gurukuls, schools, colleges, students of universities, AYUSH Department, Yoga institutions, police personnel, NCC cadets, NSS and representatives of Nehru Yuva Kendras would also be included in this function. In addition, hoardings, banners, pamphlets, newspapers and television channels would be used at large scale to make people aware regarding this programme, he added.