Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Tuesday said that the State Government has decided to celebrate the ‘International Yoga Day’ on June 21 as ‘Yog Utsav’ in the State.
Start-up programme would be organised in Panchkula from June 12 to June 14, where master trainers of yoga would impart training as a part of the ‘Yog Utsav’, he said while reviewing preparations made for International Yoga Day celebrations through a video conference with all Deputy Commissioners in the State.
The Chief Minister said that national level programme of International Yoga Day will be held in Chandigarh on June 21 in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be the chief guest. He sought information from the Deputy Commissioners regarding the programmes to be organised at the district and block level on the occasion of International Yoga Day. On this, the Deputy Commissioners apprised him that apart from 100 participants from each district that would participate in national level programme at Chandigarh, 5,000 to 10,000 participants of their respective district would take part in district level programme. All necessary arrangements have been made for the same.
Manohar lal directed the DCs to ensure installation of big lED screens in their respective areas so that the people could also perform yoga along with the PM and listen to him similar to the occasion of Panchayati Raj Diwas when all gram panchayats had heard the speech of Modi during the programme “Gram Uday Se Bharat Uday”.