All the the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools will include Yoga as an activity for assessment under the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE).
For this, CBSE has issued a circular where instructions are being given so as to celebrate International Yoga Day on June 21, 2016.
Cicular includes the following points:-
- All the schools should organise mass yoga demonstration
- All the yoga activities should be done from 7-8 am in school premises only
- There would be no compulsion on students as it on voluntary basis
- Schools should also organise musical yoga events, fests, debate, essay, quiz and drawing, contests based on yoga
- Yoga should be practiced least once a week early in the morning during assembly hours
- Yoga activity assessment should be put on student's report card
- All the schools should include yoga activity as part of student's assessment under CCE
- The assessment should be done up to secondary level
- The assessment/grades shall be portrayed in the student's annual report card.
As per the sources, "some of the schools in the city are already grading students on yoga".