Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SN/SP)

Mangalore, Nov 23:  A two-days national level UGC-sponsored seminar was jointly organized by Karnataka State and Mangalore University Physical Education Teachers Associations  and Vijaya College, Mulky at Vijaya College here  on Friday November 21.

Speaking after releasing the special souvenir brought out on the occasion, former minister Basavaraj Horatti asked the top officials in the government to lay stress on making physical education mandatory for all students.

The physical teachers should not confine themselves to submitting demands.  They should weigh the pros and cons and practicability of such demands and submit details thereof to the government, so that considering their demands would be easier, he opined. Physical education must include yoga training, and it must be a part of the physical education curriculum, the minister stressed.

Prof K M Kaveriappa, vice-chancellor, Mangalore University presided over the function.

Kondoori Lakshminarayan, general manager, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, Dr H Nagalingappa, physical education director, Roshan Kumar Shetty, Bala Bhaskar, Kantaraj and Puroshottam Poojary were present on the occasion.