A three-day Yoga festival would be organised at the Tapkeshwar temple from April 15. Informing about the festival, the Acharya Bipin Joshi said the objective of the programme is to make Uttarakhand a land of Yoga and help unemployed trained Yoga graduates get jobs. He said that on April 15 a Yog Chetna Yatra would start from Shaheed Durgamal Garhi Cantonment Park. Yoga guru Swami Jeevanand Swami would exhibit special Yoga asans in the Yatra. large number of students would also participate in the programme. The festival would be inaugurated by AYUSH minister Harak Singh Rawat and local MlA Ganesh Joshi. The Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and assembly speaker Prem Chand Agarwal would participate in the programme on concluding day.
Joshi informed that the recipient of Padma Shri in Yoga, Swami Bharat Bhushan, Yogiraj Dr Bharat Jayant (Kanvashram Kotdwar), Yogiraj Karnpal, Mahayogi Biyaanand (Madhya Pradesh) and Dr. lakshmi Narayan Joshi would take part in the festival. large number of students would also take part in the three day festival.