new delhi the university grants commission on thursday asked central universities to include modules of yoga teaching and training in their bachelors and masters courses in physiotherapyin a communication to vicechancellors on thursday ugc secretary jaspal s sandhu referred to a a letter received from the union hrd ministry seeking inclusion of yoga in bachelors and masters of physiotherapy courses from the forthcoming academic sessionlast week joint secretary in hrd ministry ishita roy had written to the ugc secretary in this regard and also informed that prime minister narendra modi has desired that the possibility of giving preference to candidates with requisite knowledge of yoga should be exploredthe modi government also wants universities to explore the possibility of a giving preference to candidates who have a certain level of expertise in yoga for admission to the bachelors course in physiotherapyearlier a government appointed committee on yoga education in universities headed by hr nagendra who is also considered to be the prime ministers yoga guru had recommended yoga syllabus for a 4year bachelors course and a 2year masters course in physiotherapythe committee had made several recommendations related to setting up of yoga departments in universitiessignificantly it had also recommended that expertise of baba ramdevs patanjali yogpeeth svyasa yoga university headed by nagendra and some other institutes could be used for setting up of these departments