Marks for students doing yoga daily: Maharashtra Culture Minister Vinod Tawde

January 21, 2016 10:10

Indian Express reports: Maharashtra Education and Cultural Affairs Minister Vinod Tawde, who is mulling the idea of making yoga part of the school curriculum, has tweeted that students practising yoga every day will be awarded marks like in sports.

Tawde tweeted this after attending a yoga session in Mumbai with Baba Ramdev.

Late Wednesday night, he tweeted: "Urged students to benefit from yoga, students practising yoga everyday will be awarded marks like in sports."

Last year in June during a yoga session at a municipal school in Vile Parle on International Yoga Day, Tawde had openly asked students and teachers whether they would like to have yoga as a subject or part of their physical education class.

Tawde said, "Why can't marks be awarded to students for yoga. This will encourage more and more students to practice yoga from the early age."

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