{"id":23955,"date":"2016-11-01T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T05:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=23952&preview_id=23952"},"modified":"2016-11-01T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T05:54:19","slug":"sc-to-hear-pil-for-making-yoga-compulsory-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=23955","title":{"rendered":"SC to hear PIL for making ‘Yoga’ compulsory for students"},"content":{"rendered":"
The PIL said that right to health cannot be secured without providing \u2018Yoga and Health Education\u2019 to all children or framing a \u2018National Yoga Policy\u2019 to promote and propagate it.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n

The Supreme Court would next week hear a plea seeking framing of a \u2018National Yoga Policy\u2019 and making \u2018Yoga\u2019 compulsory for students of Class I-VIII across the country. A bench, comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justices D Y Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao, has agreed to hear on November 7 the PIL that seeks inclusion of Yoga as a compulsory subject in the curriculum on grounds including that its \u201csecular\u201d and right to health was an integral part of right to life.<\/p>\n

WHAT ELSE IS MAKING NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The plea, filed by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, a lawyer and Delhi BJP spokesperson, has sought a direction to the Ministry of Human Resources Development, NCERT, NCTE and the CBSE to \u201cprovide standard textbooks of \u2018Yoga and Health Education\u2019 for students of Class I-VIII keeping in spirit various fundamental rights such as right to life, education and equality.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Right to Health\u2019 is an integral part of Right to Life under the Article 21. It includes protection, prevention and cure of the health and is a minimum requirement to enable a person to live with human dignity. State has a obligation to provide health facilities to all the citizens, especially to children and adolescents. In a Welfare State, it is obligation of the State to ensure the creation and sustaining of conditions congenial to good health,\u201d the plea said. It said that right to health cannot be secured without providing \u2018Yoga and Health Education\u2019 to all children or framing a \u2018National Yoga Policy\u2019 to promote and propagate it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are about 20 crore children, throughout the country, studying in primary and junior classes at the cost of public exchequer. Yoga should be taught to them as a compulsory subject as per National Curriculum Framework 2005, notified under Section 7(6) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009\u2026,\u201d it said. It also sought a direction to the Ministries of Women and Child Development and Social Justice and Empowerment to declare \u2018First Sunday\u2019 of every month as \u2018Health Day\u2019 on the lines of \u2018Polio Day\u2019 to make the people aware about health-hazards and health-hygiene. The plea also said that a court at California had held that \u201cyoga is secular\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The PIL said that right to health cannot be secured without providing \u2018Yoga and Health Education\u2019 to all children or framing a \u2018National Yoga Policy\u2019 to promote and propagate it. The Supreme Court would next week hear a plea seeking framing of a \u2018National Yoga Policy\u2019 and making \u2018Yoga\u2019 compulsory for students of Class I-VIII […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}