Braving the inclement weather, hundreds of enthusiastic people, including a large number of students, participated in the yoga camps organized in Pauri on Tuesday. One of the two such camps was hosted in the town at the initiative of Nehru Yuva Kendra, National Cadet Corps and Scout and Guide at D.A.V Inter College premises. The other one was organized at the initiative of the district administration at Indoor stadium. Hundreds of youths, women, girls and senior citizens participated.
Pauri district magistrate Chandra Shekhar Bhatt started the yoga programme by lighting the inaugural lamp. Addressing the gathering, Bhatt said that everyone should adopt yoga in the day life. Yoga makes body healthy and cleanse the mind aside from enhancing energy and clearing the process of thinking. He stressed on the children getting acquainted with the rudiments of yoga.
The training of the yoga was imparted by the Prajapati Braham Kumari Eshwari University B K Ankit and Art of living exponent Sunil Pant. Senior superintendent of police Nivedita Kukreti Kumar, sub-divisional magistrate P l Shah, D DO Ved Prakash, CMO Manish Agrawal and CMS Women Hospital Dr Kalpana Gupta were among present on the occasion aside from a large number of students.
At the function organised by NYK, NCC and Scout –Guide jointly, Sunil Pant gave the demonstration of yoga in DAV College premises. The programme was inaugurated by the campus director, HNB Garhwal Central University Pauri campus Dr A K Dobriyal.