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New Delhi, June 16: The Centre is considering a plan to establish a national-level
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resource centre on yoga to focus on syllabus revision and textbook standardisation,
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With Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushing yoga in academic institutions, the University
T2 Online Grants Commission is examining the proposal for such a centre - the Inter-University
Opinion Centre for Yogic Sciences (IUCYS) - ahead of International Yoga Day on June 21.
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The UGC had formed a committee under H.R. Nagendra, Modi's yoga guru and the
EPAPER chancellor of Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana University, to assess
the feasibility of setting up the centre and chart a road map for it.
Calcutta
North Bengal The panel submitted its report last month, suggesting the IUCYS function as a national-
level think tank on yoga.
South Bengal
Jamshedpur "The panel has recommended that the IUCYS will be the national centre for all institutions
Ranchi and learners of yoga. It will facilitate advanced research and have a standing committee of
experts to undertake the revision of yoga syllabus at various institutions," a source said.
Patna
The UGC already has six such inter-university centres in other subjects.
Guwahati
Bhubaneswar Another key recommendation is that the centre should have a panel to standardise
textbooks on yoga so that there is not much variance in courses across institutions. At
CITIES & REGIONS present, different textbooks are followed across the 54 universities that offer yoga courses.
Metro Last year, the Union HRD ministry had set up a panel under Nagendra to suggest a
North Bengal syllabus for standardised yoga courses. Based on its recommendations, the UGC has
Northeast already approved the syllabi for BSc, MSc, PhD and PG Diploma in yoga.
Jharkhand
The country's technical education regulator, the All India Council of Technical Education, is
Bihar considering including yoga in engineering colleges, though it is not clear whether it will be
Odisha mandatory or elective.

WEEKLY FEATURES Premier tech schools like the IITs are already promoting yoga and plan to mark Yoga Day
on June 21 with lectures, and yoga camps and competitions. The National Institutes of
Knowhow Mon
Technology (NITs) will hold similar events and urge participants to take a Yoga Sankalp
Salt Lake Fri (yoga vow). The NITs also plan to educate students on the Modi government's flagship
7days Sun programmes such as the Swachh Bharat Mission and the Smart City schemes.#

LEISURE Some questioned the moves. "Promoting yoga as an alternative knowledge system seems
Sudoku backed by the motive to consolidate a religious ideology," said Kesav Kumar, who teaches
philosophy at Delhi University.
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