Manish Sisodia Issues Notice To DTTE Secretary Over Yoga Initiative
According to the officials, Sisodia has sought a reply to the notice within 24 hours.
New Delhi: Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia issued a show cause notice to the secretary of the Directorate of Training and Technical Education on Tuesday, alleging him of trying to discontinue the Aam Aadmi Party’s flagship programme ‘Dilli Ki Yogshala’, which was announced by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on December 13, 2021.
According to the officials, Sisodia has sought a reply to the notice within 24 hours. “Dilli ki Yogshala is to promote meditation and yoga not just in Delhi but also to inspire the whole country. Even the Prime Minister promotes yoga by organising promotional events on the International Day of Yoga. Despite knowing that the Dilli ki Yogshala is a flagship project of the government of NCT, wrongly and forcibly tried to discontinue it and sabotage the efforts of the Delhi government to provide yoga classes for thousands of Delhiites,” read the notice issued by Sisodia.
“I have been told that in the 28th meeting of the Board of Governors (BOG) on September 30, upon the insistence of the secretary (TTE) it was decided to discontinue the programme. I have also been informed that while many members of the board of governors wanted to continue the current programme, the secretary (TTE) took a strong stand against it and said that this programme could not be continued,” read the notice undersigned by Sisodia.
'The government not only wants to take this programme forward but also wants to increase its scale, then in such a situation, after discussing with the minister concerned, how did it decide to stop it?’ the notice further read.
The Kejriwal government provides free yoga instructors to the people of Delhi to learn yoga under Delhi's Yogashala programme. Under this flagship programme, 590 yoga classes are conducted daily in Delhi in which around 17,000 people learn yoga. Sisodia called the decision to discontinue Delhi's Yogashala programme on September 30 by the Secretary, of Training and Technical Education wrong.
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