Mumbai: Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday suggested that yoga should be included in school curriculum and it is unfortunate that some people try to link it with a religion. If it is included in the school curriculum it is possible to create a healthy nation, he said.Participating in an International Yoga Day event at the Bandra Reclamation Sealink Promenade, Mr Naidu said, "Yoga is a holistic approach to well being. It shouldnt MINI BAR refrigerators manufacturers just be for one day, it should be a part of our daily lives. Yoga is a gift from India to the world.""The practice of yoga is important for positive thoughts.

If it is included in the school curriculum it is possible to create a healthy nation," he added.Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also performed asanas at the event, said yoga, # an ancient science, was important in the modern day world.Later in the day, Mr Naidu inaugurated a national consultation on 'making agriculture sustainable and profitable' at an institute in Pune.Speaking at the event, Mr Naidu said that loan waiver is not a permanent solution and in the long-term, it would affect the agriculture sector and hurt cultivators.Claiming that farmers who take up allied activities such as poultry and dairy along with traditional farming, do not commit suicide.

Ahead of the International Yoga Day, yoga guru Baba Ramdev conducted a yoga session with nearly 11,000 inmates of Tihar Jail on Sunday and also promised jobs to some of them, a jail official said.The yoga guru spent nearly four hours inside the jail premises and visited the factory where the inmates prepared products that are sold under the brand name TJ and expressed willingness in partnering with the brand.The inmates from nine jails had gathered at jail number 1 where Ramdev conducted the yoga session. He advised them to give up bad habits and negative emotions. "You should give up the feelings of anger and revenge. This will be my guru dakshina," Ramdev said.He also asked them to quit tobacco and smoking.The jail has set a target of training at least 1,000 inmates as yoga teachers. He promised jobs to 1,000 inmates whenever they are released, the jail official said.

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