To observe the International Yoga Day on June 21, Haryana Government would organise a State level function at Karnal. Chief Minister Manohar lal would be the chief guest on this occasion and about 21,000 yoga trainees would participate in it. Haryana Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Ram Niwas and Additional Chief Secretary, Sports and Youth Affairs, Dr KK Khandelwal gave directions to all Deputy Commissioner regarding the function through video conferencing here on Tuesday.
Ram Niwas said that rehearsal for this function would be held on June 19. He said that the preparations and training for this function is being supervised by Patanjali Yogpeeth. He said that this training programme would be free of cost and anyone can participate in it. He said that T-Shirts bearing Yoga logo would be provided by the Government to all people present on this occasion. He said that the Centre has prepared a Capsule Programme of 35 minutes for this State level function. Training would be started only after registering names of interested people. Only 2100 people would be provided training in a district.
Recently, Haryana Government had made Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev brand ambassador of the state for promotion of Yoga and Ayurveda. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Khandelwal said that the State level and district level programmes are being organised by AYUSH Department. Sports Department and Patanjali Yogpeeth are extending their help for the programmes.
He said that this is a joint effort to promote yoga for which Government, voluntary organisations and society would have to prepare yoga friendly atmosphere so that people could adopt yoga into their lifestyle. He said that the training programme would continue for three days. Giving further information, Dr Jagdeep Arya of Patanjali Yogpeeth said that training of district employees’ alongwith all Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament would be organised at Panchkula.
Ramdev during his visit to Chandigarh earlier this month, had announced that volunteers would launch a campaign from June 1 to June 20 and invite the people at their door step to participate in the International Yoga Day. He had said that efforts would be made in Haryana to lead this campaign. For this, 10,000 volunteers would actively work to ensure people’s participation in the celebration of International Yoga Day.