Ayush app to locate certified yoga teachers and schools
NEWDELHI: A mobile-based app to help users locate certified yoga instructors and institutes around them has been commissioned by the ministry, which regulates alternative systems of medicine, including yoga.
The app will list yoga instructors and institutes that have been validated by experts from the Central Council for Research in Yoga & Naturopathy (CCRYN) under the ministry. Instructors and institutes interested in getting certified will have to apply to the Ayush ministry and will get listed after CCRYN verifies their skill and quality of services.
“People want to learn yoga but they don’t know where to go, which is where our app will help. It will help people locate an authentic place within their pre- ferred radius and will ensure they don’t fall prey to people who claim to be experts but in reality are untrained frauds,” said Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, secretary, Ayush.
Ayush has two yoga-specific apps to provide information and data around International Yoga Day (IYD) events. The Bhuvan Yoga app was launched last year to map the number of people participating in IYD. This app is not open to public. The yoga locator was specifically created for people to locate IYD events.
“This new app, in a way, will be an improvised version of the yoga-locator app. Our vendor had floated the proposal and we have sent out an expression of interest for interested parties to create the app. It will be ready by the end of the year and work on both android and IOS ,” said PN Ranjit Kumar, joint secretary, Ayush.
“If the trainer is not experienced or properly trained, learners may end up performing wrong postures that can be harmful. Apart from the physical, there is also a spiritual aspect to yoga, and wrong techniques can lead to energy loss,” said Neetu Sharma, a yoga therapist at the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga. BHOPAL/SHIVPURI: A Dalit watchman was on Monday allegedly beaten to death in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district by a group of 13 people who had encroached upon a plot land allotted to him by the state government in 2002. All the accused are absconding, a police official said.
The crime took place at village Khislauni in Bamorkala police station in Shivpuri, 312 kilometers north of Bhopal.
The police station in charge RR Tiwari said Ramsevak Parihar, 50, who happened to be a village kotwar (watchman) was on his way to his agriculture field from his house when the accused attacked him with sharp edged weapons and lathis. Parihar, who was injured in the attack, was rushed to the district hospital at Shivpuri by his son Dharmsingh and other family members but he was declared brought dead.
The police officer said, “Son of the deceased told us that the state government had allotted 10 bigha of land to his father in 2002. In 2005, the accused, including Kallu Yadav, Kashiram Yadav, Punjab Singh, Dasiram, Mahesh, Shankar, Santram, Rajkumar and others, encroached upon the land. His father lodged a complaint with the revenue court, which decided the case in his favour in 2012. The encroachers, however, didn’t vacate the land.”
The victim’s son told reporters that his father had been facing a threat to his life. He claimed that his father had also complained to several authorities in the district against the accused but didn’t get any help.
However, the police officer said it was only last month that the police arrested two of the accused under section 151 of IPC on the complaint of the victim and asked them to submit bonds stating that they would not indulge in any crime against the victim.
Police have registered an FIR against the 13 accused under various sections of the IPC and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Police were investigating the case and a manhunt had been launched to nab the accused.
THE APP WILL LIST YOGA INSTRUCTORS AND INSTITUTES THAT HAVE BEEN VALIDATED BY EXPERTS