Chandigarh:&nbsp;The Haryana Government today&nbsp;decided to give status of Cabinet Minister to Ramdev, who has&nbsp;been appointed as the State's brand ambassador to promote yoga&nbsp;and ayurveda.
"Ramdev will be given status equivalent to Cabinet&nbsp;Minister. This decision was taken at a meeting of Ministers&nbsp;which was presided over by the Chief Minister here today,"&nbsp;Haryana's Health and Sports Minister, Anil Vij told PTI.
"We have taken the decision. Notification in this regard&nbsp;will be issued later," he said.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2015/apr/baba-ramdev.jpg" alt="The Haryana Government has decided to give status of Cabinet Minister to Ramdev, who has been appointed as the State's brand ambassador to promote yoga and ayurveda" />
Official sources said that those granted "status&nbsp;equivalent to cabinet minister" are not entitled to salary and&nbsp;allowances payable to a legislator sworn-in as a cabinet&nbsp;minister.
They are, however, entitled to protocol facilities,&nbsp;including escort and state guest status at official rest&nbsp;houses.
The Haryana Assembly had last month witnessed uproarious&nbsp;scenes with the BJP government coming under attack from&nbsp;opposition Congress for allegedly "going out of the way to&nbsp;please Ramdev by making him the brand ambassador" for&nbsp;promotion of Yoga and Ayurveda in the state.&nbsp;
Vij said, "We will be signing an MoU with the Patanjali&nbsp;Yogpeeth in a day or two". Among other things, the MoU is&nbsp;likely to go into details on how to implement the state&nbsp;government's plans to promote yoga and ayurveda.&nbsp;
Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar said Ramdev has made&nbsp;"special contribution" in propagating the benefits of yoga.
"With a view to educate people about yoga, we have taken this&nbsp;step and made him the brand ambassador. There is nothing more&nbsp;to say on this. Yoga has got a special status in the world."&nbsp;
Yoga would be made a compulsory subject in Haryana's&nbsp;schools for which yogshalas would be constructed in all the&nbsp;towns and about 6500 villages of the state under the guidance&nbsp;of Ramdev, Vij said.
"Yoga will be made a compulsory subject in Haryana&nbsp;schools, even if it means that we have to frame a law for the&nbsp;purpose," he said.&nbsp;
"Zero period in all schools of Haryana would be yoga&nbsp;period and the PT teachers would have to undergo a training in&nbsp;yoga under the guidance of the yoga guru," he said.&nbsp;
"We will also consult Ramdev on the kind of programmes&nbsp;which we shoud be having for June 21, which will be observed&nbsp;as International Yoga Day," he said.
A herbal forest would be developed in the State where&nbsp;plants of thousands of species of ayurvedic herbs would be grown under the supervision of Ramdev.&nbsp;

The Haryana Government has decided to give status of Cabinet Minister to Ramdev, who has&nbsp;been appointed as the State's brand ambassador to promote yoga&nbsp;and ayurveda

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