‘Let CM try sit-ups, validate benefits before imposing it on students’

ROHTAK: Commenting on students in Bhiwani schools being made to do sit-ups every morning, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) state convener Naveen Jaihind on Tuesday asked chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar to to first try it himself before making students do it.
The Haryana School Education Board has made it mandatory for all of its students to do 14 sit-ups daily as part of ‘Super Yoga for Brain’ activity in morning assembly. Students have been told that sit-ups with hands crossed and touching the ears would boost their brain and help in concentration.
Talking to mediapersons here, Jaihind took a swipe on the Haryana government saying that if it improve brain power and concentration then CM Khattar and his cabinet ministers do it first and validate its benefits before imposing the diktat on innocent students.
Referring to his sports background, the AAP state chief said that nowhere had he read that exercise should be done after taking meal. “Rather, it has been written categorically that no exercise should be performed right after meals, but the Haryana government is hell bent on ruining the health of students,” he added.
Mocking the claim of ‘brain boost’ through sit-ups, Jaihind said that it was that the government would come up with the idea of using stick in the name of improving students’ academic record. He said that the state government should take lessons from the “AAP’s Delhi government which had has transformed its government schools by working on improving infrastructure and bringing modern gadgets”.
He also said that if the government was really serious about helping in children’s brain development, why not provide almonds in mid-day meal to students in place of ‘khichri’ .