Chandigarh

Haryana CM, officers to undergo Yoga training

PNS

Ahead of International Yoga day on June 21, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal, Cabinet Ministers as well as MlAs, senior officers of the State Government will undergo training at a yoga camp where yoga guru Ramdev, the brand ambassador of Yoga and Ayurveda in Haryana, would impart training.

A 3-day yoga training camp will be organised at Parade Ground, Sector-5, Panchkula, near here from June 12 and it will be inaugurated by Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki, said Haryana Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Anil Vij.

He said that Judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, members of Bar Association, Members of Parliament and media persons   have also been invited to attend the camp. The training would be imparted between 5 am and 7 am daily. He said that   the national programme of International Yoga Day on June 21 would be organized in Chandigarh and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be the chief guest. The state government has got yoga training imparted to staff of Police and Ayush Departments, Yoga Instructor and PTIs of Education Department, school and college students, panches, sarpanches and other elected representatives and representatives of NGOs and other social organizations with the help of Patanjali Yog Peeth. The 3-day training programme for local MlAs, MPs and officers has begun in all districts of the state from June 6.More than10,000 participants from Haryana would take part in this national programme. International Yoga Day would be celebrated as yoga festival in all Districts and Blocks. A minimum of 2,100 participants would take part in the District level programme and about 500 in Block level programme. Only those who would give excellent performance during training camps would participate in the national programme, which is being organized on the occasion of International Yoga Day, he added.