The National Cadet Corps (NCC) has set a record for the largest yoga performance on the first International Yoga Day, simultaneously at multiple venues by a single-uniformed youth organisation. Nearly 9.5 lakh cadets performed ‘asanas’ on Sunday at 1,804 venues all over the country including the main event at Rajpath where about 5,000 NCC cadets were part of the 40,000 participants.
The cadets performed ‘asanas’ as per the protocol given by the Ayush Ministry from 07:00 to 07:35 am all over the country, including leh in the North, Dwarka in the West, Tezu (Arunachal Pradesh) in the East, Nagercoil (Kanyakumari) in the South and in the islands of Andaman & Nicobar.
The Defence Ministry said it was a phenomenal achievement by itself. NCC claimed that it was a world record and they would be approach the limca Books of Records.
Besides NCC, the Armed Forces also performed yoga throughout the length and breadth of the country and overseas with the three Services Chiefs going through various ‘asanas’ along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Rajpath. In addition nearly 50 senior officers of the rank of lt General and equivalent also took part in the main event here.
Soldiers also adopted various yogic postures at Siachen glacier in temperatures dipping to minus four degrees. Sailors on board four warships on overseas deployment and sailing in Mediterranean Sea, Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean also went through the drill simultaneously.