New Delhi: University Grants Commission (UGC) has released guidelines for the celebration of International Yoga Day 2020 on June 21. According to UGC, the Yoga Day celebrations should be in accordance with the social-distancing protocol. Hence, UGC has asked universities and colleges to encourage students and faculty members to perform ‘Yoga at home and Yoga with family’.
UGC has suggested that activities for Yoga Day should be facilitated through social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. These platforms can also be used to upload videos.
Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) can issue internal guidelines about using online platforms for activities like lectures, workshops, and online training sessions, reported NDTV.
UGC says that institutes may also be encouraged to use the Diksha platform as a dedicated Yoga channel.
Institutes can also join Common Yoga Protocol Drill (CYD) on Yoga Day at 7 am. The drill is a 45 minutes’ Yoga Protocol developed by Yoga experts. The details on the drill will be available on Ayush Ministry’s social media platforms.
Universities and colleges have also been asked to share participatory videos in a template available on the UGC University Activity Monitoring Portal (UAMP), NDTV added.
The first Yoga Day was celebrated in 2015 after its inception in the United Nations General Assembly in 2014.
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