bySaswat Singhdeo
In a shocking response to an RTI query, the Ministry of AYUSH has said that it didn’t hire Muslims as trainers for World Yoga Day ‘as per government policy’.
A journalist had filed the RTI query asking for the number of Muslim candidates selected for the position of trainers for short-term assignments during World Yoga Day and the total number of candidates hired, reports The Milli Gazette.
In reply to the query, the Ministry said that out of the 711 Muslim trainers who had applied for the short term abroad assignment, nobody was selected.
Also, out of the 3,841 Muslim candidates, no one was hired for the position of Yoga trainer or teacher till October 2015, the report adds.