Coinciding with the International Yoga Day celebrations, the Centre on Sunday directed the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) to make Yoga Education compulsory for all from the current academic session.Following the directive, Yoga Education will be made compulsory for all the 15 teacher education programmes recognised as per NCTE 2014 Gazette notification.
Earlier the HRD Ministry, through UGC, had asked all institutes and universities across the country to observe the International Yoga Day through several activities like “exhibition on yoga postures” and “online essay competitions.”
“For the first time in the country, above 1.4 million teachers and teachers’ educators, studying and teaching in above 18,000 teacher education institutions, will compulsorily study and practice yoga,” said a top HRD Ministry official.
