The Supreme Court asked the Centre to take a decision within three months on pleas seeking framing of a national yoga policy and making yoga compulsory for students of Class I-VIII across the country. A bench headed by Justice M B Lokur asked the Centre to treat the petitions filed on the issue as a representation and take a decision. The court was hearing the pleas filed by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, a lawyer and Delhi BJP spokesperson and JC Seth on the issue. "State has an obligation to provide health facilities to all the citizens, especially to children and adolescents. It said that right to health cannot be secured without providing 'yoga and health education' to all children or framing a 'national yoga policy' to promote and propagate it.

Source: dna November 29, 2016 07:31 UTC