Mega preparations across India for International Yoga Day
20 Jun 2016 11:10 AM IST20 Jun 2016 11:10 AM IST
June 21 was declared as the International Day of Yoga by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2014.
Yoga exponent Ramdev and Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu practice Yoga along with others during a yoga camp ahead of the International Yoga Day on June 21, at Rajpath in New Delhi.- Muslim students practice yoga ahead of International Yoga Day celebrations, at a school in Ahmedabad.
- People practise Yoga during a training session in Guwahati on Sunday.
- School Children perform Yoga ahead of World Yoga Day in Ahmedabad. Yoga will be encouraged in schools under the new education policy being framed by the government.
- The main event will witness participation of nearly 35,000 people at the Capitol Complex and 10,000 persons at 100 other locations across the city. It will be broadcast live by Doordarshan and All India Radio.
- Over 173 Indian missions across the world are also organising Yoga demonstrations to spread awareness about Yoga day, the statement said. Several missions organised a series of curtain raisers in various parts of the world, it said.
- Significantly, some 10 Ministers including Jaitley, Singh, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Nirmala Sitharaman and Maneka Gandhi have been lined up for poll-bound Uttar Pradesh to lead these programmes. The series of programmes this year include mass yoga events, workshops and seminars.
- The 57 Minister who have been assigned the task of leading this year's programme include Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and HRD Minister Smriti Irani, among others.
- Ramdev will hold a mass session with over 3,000 BSF jawans and officers to mark the International Yoga Day on June 21 in Jodhpur.
- For the main event, the emphasis this year will be on participation of Divyangs, the nomenclature coined by Modi for differently-abled, youths and people from economically weaker sections.
- The 45-minute rehearsals began at 7:30 am and was attended by defense forces, ITBP personnel, Panjab University students, Divyangs, yoga foundations, school children and a select few from yoga orientation training camps.
- Nearly 30,000 participants from Chandigarh, Panchkula, and Mohali today rehearsed at Capitol Complex here ahead of the second International Day of Yoga on June 21.
Yoga exponent Ramdev and Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu practice Yoga along with others during a yoga camp ahead of the International Yoga Day on June 21, at Rajpath in New Delhi.
June 21 was declared as the International Day of Yoga by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2014.
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