Include yoga as subject in schools, colleges: Assn

Tribune News Service

Shimla, February 24

The Himachal Pradesh Yogasana Sports Association (HPYSA) has urged the state government to include yoga as a compulsory subject at school level and also teach the subject in colleges.

Inclusion of yoga as a subject at schools and college level would open new career avenues for the youth, said HPYSA Chairman GD Sharma while addressing mediapersons here.

The HPYSA is all set to organise first online state-level yogasana contest in March and the winners of the contest would participate in the national championship to be held from March 24 to 26, he said.

Affiliated to the National Yogasana Sports Association, HPYSA is a body recognised by the central Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and has also launched a statewide drive to connect hill youth with yoga.

Yoga had been recognised as a sport by the Government of India recently and sports quota in jobs will now be applicable to sportspersons practising yoga and new employment opportunities would be carved, he said and added that HPYSA would make efforts to create job opportunities for youth through yoga.

Sharma, a former professor of HP University, has been instrumental in promoting yoga across the globe when he was posted in Indonesia by the Government of India with a diplomat status from 1992 to 1997.