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In December 2014, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had declared a Yoga University for Nashik during the Rising Nashik event in Mumbai.A city-based NGO ‘Eco Drive’ is amongst the individuals and organizations that is following up this issue relentlessly since then. MUHS will be the first health science university to have full-fledged degree course on Yoga,” he added. Kiran Chavan, a member of Eco Drive, had even made a presentation on viability and benefits of the Yoga University in Nashik to Prime Minister Narendra Modi back in 2016.After the presentation, the PM had directed AYUSH ministry to consider the proposal. “I am hopeful that the MUHS will soon get all the permissions and we will start the courses by next academic year. Nashik: Even as yoga enthusiasts in Nashik would roll out their mats on Thursday to celebrate fourth International Yoga Day, the bitter fact remains that two ambitious Yoga projects related to Nashik are yet to see the light of the day.While one of the projects is related to establishment of an International Yoga University, the other is related to introduction of yoga in medical curriculum of medical colleges in the state pending with the city-based Maharashtra University of Health Sciences.A section of Nashik’s yoga practitioners, experts and academicians admitted that they are disappointed as nothing has happened about these projects so far..