{"id":6737,"date":"2008-04-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/04\/02\/yoga-to-be-made-compulsory-subject-in-tamil-nadu-schools\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T12:00:00","slug":"yoga-to-be-made-compulsory-subject-in-tamil-nadu-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/04\/02\/yoga-to-be-made-compulsory-subject-in-tamil-nadu-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga to be made compulsory subject in Tamil Nadu schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/004200803311655.htm\">www.hinduonnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">CHENNAI, INDIA, March 31, 2008: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday announced that yoga would be made a compulsory subject in all schools in the state from the next academic year. School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu, while replying to a question by Congress member S. Sekar in the Assembly, said efforts were already underway for this purpose. &#8220;We have trained about 110,000 teachers in private and government schools in the state, with the help of 300 yoga instructors.&#8221;  &#8220;Chief Minister M Karunanidhi himself is a regular practitioner of yoga and that is a secret of his good health,&#8221; the Minister said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hinduonnet.com CHENNAI, INDIA, March 31, 2008: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday announced that yoga would be made a compulsory,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}