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Soon, students will carry around yoga mats

Educational institutes will now be teaching yoga as an extra-curricular activity during physical education (PE) periods to help students cope with rising stress and aggression.

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To curb the rising aggression among youth, schools and colleges have decided to give yoga more importance.

Educational institutes will now be teaching yoga as an extra-curricular activity during physical education (PE) periods to help students cope with rising stress and aggression.

At the seventh international “Yoga for Youth” conference on Thursday, jointly organised by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and Kaivalyadhama Yoga Institute, it was announced that yoga will be introduced as part of the school and higher education curriculum from the next academic year.

“The youth today doesn’t know to deal with emotional disturbances. Yoga will help students relax and stem such problems,” former Supreme Court  justice and chairman of Kaivalyadhama’s advisory board BN Krishnan said.

Former vice chancellor Dr Snehalata Deshmukh believes that training teachers is important because we often find people suffer from muscle sprains and fractures when they are not taught well.

Despite begin given adequate weightage in NCERT’s 2005 syllabus, lack of  trained instructors hampered yoga from being incorporated into the syllabus. NCERT will now be tying up with the institute to train PE teachers in yoga instruction for 6 to 9 months.

The partnership was necessary was there are many schools in the country that do not have PE teachers to begin with. “Rs1.4 crore has been allotted for this purpose,” said Dr PV Prakasa Rao, coordinator of the PSSCIVE project and yoga scheme, HRD ministry.

Teachers who will take part in the training sessions will be given on-duty leave so that their work is not affected.

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