Currently, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) of India is in process of developing the mechanism to offer accreditation to Yoga Programmes and Institutions of higher education in Yoga in India and also all over the world.

Please find below following NAAC’s Yoga Programme Accreditation Documents (Draft) to join the pilot study for assessment and accreditation of yoga programme offered by Higher Education Institutions (HEIs):

• Draft Quality Indicator Framework (QIF) for Yoga Programme accreditation. (Annexure-A)
• Draft Application format for Programme Information on Yoga for Quality Assessment (PIYQA) & Eligibility Criteria for yoga programme accreditation at national level. (Annexure-B)
• Draft Data Capture Format. (Annexure-C)

We request you to kindly go through all the above documents and submit your feedback as per following guidelines:

1. Provide necessary feedbacks including modifications/additions/deletions of any specific metric or questions on QIF (attached as Annexure-A)
2. Provide the actual figures relating to your Institutional Yoga Department as per the format given in Annexure-B.
3. We have given some sample version of data calculation in Data Capture Format at Annexure-C. The formulas of calculations are available in QIF against each metrics. Please use the same formulas for calculations and return as the filled in data capture format.

You may send your valuable feedback/suggestions to Dr. Jagannath Patil, Adviser, NAAC and Convener of Yoga Programme Accreditation initiative, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. on or before 14 th February 2019. Further, the received feedback from stakeholder would be considered for further revision by the expert committee.

Sd/- Prof. S. C. Sharma
Director, NAAC