Stage is set for celebrating International Yoga Day on June 21 in all the 27 districts of Chhattisgarh. It will be marked by Yoga based exercises to be held from 7 am to 8 am in all development blocks, towns, gram panchayats and district headquarters.
Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh and Assembly Speaker Gaurishankar Agrawal will participate in the event scheduled at Balbir Singh Juneja Indoor Stadium. Union minister of state for Power (Independent Charge) RK Singh and Member of Parliament Raipur Ramesh Bais will preside over the function.
As per information received from Koriya district, around 2.5 lakh people o different age groups would be participating in community yoga exercise event. The main programme would be held at Ramanuj Mini Stadium from 8.30 am.
At Rajnandgaon district, people had started to converge for the yoga sessions at Agriculture Produce Market premises as rehearsal since few days. Health check up was also conducted at Rajnandgaon where BP, diabetes among others was checked. The patients were given tips to adopt the yoga session which is beneficial to keep away these diseases as per patients. Chief Guest of main event would be
district incharge minister Rajesh Munat. MP Abhishek Singh would preside over. Event is scheduled from 7.00 to 8.00 am.
Officiating collector and Jila Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Rituraj Raghuvanshi reviewed the preparation for International Yoga Day at Mahasamund. Events would be organised in towns and villages of district.
All preparations have been done in Bemetara district where main event would be held at Agriculture Market premises. The school children from sixth to 12th would be participating in the event where various yoga trainers would take the session.
Parliamentary secretary, PWD, housing and environment Raju Singh Kshatriya would be chief guest at Stadium ground at Surajpur district. Event would be organised at 6.00 am while events would be organised at district, block, high and higher secondary schools, village panchayat school and hostels.