To ensure full participation of enthusiastic yoga volunteers from the State during second International Day of Yoga, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday reviewed arrangements for the mega event to be held on June 21 at Chandigarh Capitol Complex wherein the Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be the chief guest.
Badal, presiding over a second round of meeting with the delegation led by BJP state president and Union State Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Vijay Sampla to monitor the preparations of the grand event, asked the Chief Secretary to put in place all logistics, facilities for transportation and refreshment etc for 10,000 yoga volunteers to be finally selected for this event, well in advance so as to make this grand function a memorable .
Briefing the delegation, the Chief Secretary Sarvesh Kaushal said that detailed instructions had already been issued to all the Deputy Commissioner to conduct International Yoga Day- 2016 at district and block level across the state.
District Nodal Officer and Deputy Nodal Officers have been appointed in all districts to finalize training schedule of registered participants besides distribution of Common Yoga Protocol CDs to the registered users.
He said that so far, 21,670 yoga volunteers from Punjab have been registered on the official website to confirm their participation in the main event at Capitol Complex, against 10,000 volunteers to be finally selected for the main event.
“Full dress rehearsal would be organized on June 19. These volunteers were being imparted yoga training by the experts or master trainers from Patanjali and Department of Ayush or Ayurveda in special camps organized at various places across the state,” said Kaushal.
Kaushal apprised that the identity cards would be issued to the participants for the main event in coordination with UT Administration.
A group leader, representing each batch of 50 yoga volunteers, would be selected to ensure better coordination with the organizers for successful conduct of main function in the Capitol Complex to mark second International Day of Yoga.
Badal asked the Chief Secretary to convene another meeting of Shiromani
Akali Dal leaders representing the nearby districts of
Mohali, Ropar, Patiala, Fatehgarh Sahib viz Member Parliament Prem Singh Chandumajra, Cabinet Minister Daljit Singh Cheema, CPS NK Sharma, MlA Bassi Pathana Justice (Retd) Nirmal Singh and
former MlA Didar Singh Bhatti with the BJP leadership shortly to ensure proper conduct of the main function at Chandigarh besides other such functions in their own districts with great enthusiasm and gaiety.