KOLHAPUR: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued additional guidelines on the International Yoga Day celebrations on June 21 in universities and colleges across the country.
In the new guidelines issued on May 14, the UGC has suggested that the event may be carried out with live demonstration by Yoga practitioners. It added that willing students and faculties of the universities may practice Yoga as shown by the practitioners. The other students/faculties may, however, observe the same.
The second suggestion is that the best participant of the day's Yoga session may be awarded prize and certificates in a function to be organised on June 21, followed by organising yoga exhibition on yogic postures, for which the banners may be displayed for awareness in the campus. An online essay competition too has been advised for the occasion.
UGC secretary Jaspal Sandhu stated that apart from the letter dated April 17 regarding observance of International Yoga day on June 21, it is further desired to adopt the activities during the celebration.
The UGC has asked all universities under its jurisdiction to celebrate June 21 as the Yoga Day at the campus as well as the colleges in it. In a letter on April 17, it stated that the United Nations General Assembly had passed the resolution to celebrate June 21 as the International Yoga Day, which has been given practical nature in the country.
"The idea for declaring an International Day of Yoga at the United Nations was formally proposed by the PM Narendra Modi in his maiden address to UN. The union government has decided to give practical effect to the resolution by ensuring that the first International Day of Yoga is commemorated in a befitting manner on June 21," it stated.
Further, it asked the universities and colleges to observe the Yoga Day and advised to ensure that the promotional films and other information, education and communication should be distributed on that specified day.
In the new guidelines issued on May 14, the UGC has suggested that the event may be carried out with live demonstration by Yoga practitioners. It added that willing students and faculties of the universities may practice Yoga as shown by the practitioners. The other students/faculties may, however, observe the same.
The second suggestion is that the best participant of the day's Yoga session may be awarded prize and certificates in a function to be organised on June 21, followed by organising yoga exhibition on yogic postures, for which the banners may be displayed for awareness in the campus. An online essay competition too has been advised for the occasion.
UGC secretary Jaspal Sandhu stated that apart from the letter dated April 17 regarding observance of International Yoga day on June 21, it is further desired to adopt the activities during the celebration.
The UGC has asked all universities under its jurisdiction to celebrate June 21 as the Yoga Day at the campus as well as the colleges in it. In a letter on April 17, it stated that the United Nations General Assembly had passed the resolution to celebrate June 21 as the International Yoga Day, which has been given practical nature in the country.
"The idea for declaring an International Day of Yoga at the United Nations was formally proposed by the PM Narendra Modi in his maiden address to UN. The union government has decided to give practical effect to the resolution by ensuring that the first International Day of Yoga is commemorated in a befitting manner on June 21," it stated.
Further, it asked the universities and colleges to observe the Yoga Day and advised to ensure that the promotional films and other information, education and communication should be distributed on that specified day.
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