Ahead of the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the city next month on International Yoga Day, the third day of the Yoga Orientation programme on Saturday saw participation of more than 800 yoga trainers.
Anurag Agarwal, Home Secretary, Chandigarh Administration and Amit Talwar, Additional Deputy Commissioner, along with other officials of the Chandigarh Administration were present during the orientation programme.
Experts of various Yoga organisations like Patanjali Yog Peeth, Art of living, Isha Foundation, Brahmrishi Yoga training college, Chandigarh Yog Sabha, Yoga Federation of India, Yog Vidya Maha Samiti, Friends of Yoga, Bharti Yog Sansthan etc have been attending the orientation Programme for last two days.
Agarwal appreciated the efforts of all the participants, and appealed to all residents of Chandigarh to participate with full vigour to make International Yoga Day a huge success.
He also mentioned that 200 training venues have been identified all over the city where master trainers shall provide the training to city residents and Chandigarh Administration is developing a mobile application to register participants for the event.
later during the day, a review meeting was held with Ajit Balaji Joshi Deputy Commissioner along with all the members of core team at the Control Room. During the meeting, Joshi, said that the online registrations for the camps to be held from May 21 in various locations should begin from May 17. Faculties from the College of Arts shared the creatives for the social media and print media campaigns.
A control room has been set up at the DC office, Chandigarh to monitor and coordinate the plan of event. The Deputy Commissioner suggested that different online competitions should be planned, competition
of yoga postures and Yoga Anthem, Tagline etc. Yoga training would be imparted to the specially abled citizens of the city as well.