Seven yoga training centres planned in the country

Seven yoga training centres planned in the country

Mangalore Today News Network

Belthangady, Dec 15, 2014: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ayush, Shripad Yesso Naik on Sunday said seven yoga training centres were being set up by the government under the National Rural Health Mission. One of them would come up at Nagamangala in Karnataka, he said.

The Minister was delivering the valedictory address at a conference organised on the occasion of the silver jubilee celebrations of Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Naturopathy Centre at Ujire near here. The first phase of work at the Nagamangala centre was complete and the second phase was nearing completion.

The Karnataka government provided 50 acres land to set up the centre, Mr. Naik said. Six more such centres would come up in different parts of the country in five years, the Minister added.

Mr. Naik said the government would provide compulsory yoga training for the police and military personnel and school children.

Earlier, Mr. Naik visited the Manjunatheshwara Temple at Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala and received a memento from Dharmadhikari D. Veerendra Heggade.

Speaking at valedictory, Mr. Heggade urged the government to provide equal status to naturopathy on the lines of other systems of medicine. Demanding allocation of at least 10 per cent of the budgetary support to Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Sidda and Homeopathy, Mr. Heggade urged the government to open Ayush centres at every taluk hospital. Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, K.S. Ravindranath, and Belthangady MLA K. Vasantha Bangera were present.

Courtesy: The Hindu