Mysuru: Mysuru has done it. The mass yoga event held at the Mysuru Race Course in the backdrop of the Chamundi hills to celebrate International Yoga Day on June 21 this year has won it a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest yoga session ever conducted at one venue.
The 55,506 people who performed at the event, included Union Minister , D V Sadanandgowda, district in-charge Minister Dr H.C Mahadevappa, MP Pratap Simha and his wife, Arpitha who is specially abled, the man behind the show, Mysuru Deputy Commissioner, D Randeep and his wife, Arpitha Raj Randeep, Mysuru Police Commissione, and several other district officers.
There were also over 10,000 participants from different yoga networking organisations from Mysuru, 17,000 students from JSS institutions, 15,850 students from 183 private and government schools, and students from BCM hostels, besides 40 blind students from the Ranga Rao Memorial School for Disabled, deaf and dumb students from the Helen Keller School, a few foreigners learning yoga in Mysuru, and members of the public.
As many as 48 closed circuit cameras and drones were used to keep an eye on the participants, who were given barcoded tickets as identification. The previous World record was held by a mass yoga event with 38,985 participants at Rajpath in New Delhi in 2016.
