The first International Yoga Day was celebrated by both Government and non-government organisations with enthusiasm at Hazaribagh on Sunday. Main function was organised by the district administration in Hazaribagh stadium in the leadership of Deputy Commissioner Mukesh Kumar in which more than thousand persons participated and performed yoga. They also pledged to adopt it in their day to day life.
In Vinoba Bhave University, the Yoga was organised under the leadership of Vice-Chancellor Prof Gurudeep Singh. large number of students and teachers participated in this program. Here too everyone performed the different Asanas of Yoga as per the instruction of the expert.At DAV Public School, Hazaribagh, students, parents, teaching and non-teaching staffs of the school were seen doing Yoga under the guidance of Mithilesh Mehta, Sanju Kumari and Ranjana Devi of Patanjali Yog Peeth, Hazaribagh, to mark the occasion of International Yoga Day.
Principal Ashok Kumar in his address said that it was really a matter of great pride for all Indians that the yogaa part of our Indian culture was going to be practiced by the peoples of 191 countries today which has been accepted as the day for the International Day of Yoga.
Non-governmental organisations like Nav Bharat Jagarti Kendra, Jan Jagran Kendra, Bharat Scout and Guide, Prayas and others also organised special programs on Yoga Day in the their respective premises and their members took oath of spreading the message of Yoga in every corner of the district for healthy life of every common man.