The City of Nawabs is all set to create a record of sorts, when over 55,000 participants will do Yoga, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other dignitaries, on the occasion of the International Yoga Day on the Ram Bai Ambedkar ground on Wednesday.
This would be the third International Yoga Day function, after those organised in Delhi and Chandigarh. The inaugural event at Rajpath in Delhi in 2015 established two Guinness world records, awarded to the Ministry of Ayush, which had organised the event. The two records were for the largest yoga class, featuring 35,985 people and for the largest number of participating nationalities of 84 countries.
On the second International Yoga Day at Chandigarh, around 30,000 participants had attended the event, along with the Prime Minister.
lucknow is ready to break all previous records as this time over 55,000 volunteers are likely to take part in the International Yoga Day. Besides this, 11 parks in the State capital would also be holding Yoga programmes simultaneously.
With possibility of rain in the next 24 hours in lucknow and its nearby areas, the district authorities and the Union AYUSH Ministry are ready with plan-B, in case of downpours during the programme.
“We are taking no chances and are prepared for any eventuality, even if there is rain during the programme,” said lucknow District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma.
The DM said, during the full dress rehearsal, the officials had observed some lapses like traffic management, which will be taken care during the main event.
Except for making a waterproof pandal for the VVIPs, the authorities are helpless in making the same arrangements for the 55,000 people, who are slated to do Yoga along with the PM, UP Governor Ram Naik, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev.
During the last International Yoga Day function in the State capital on June 21, 2016, which was attended by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the KD Singh Babu Stadium, the Yoga programme was disrupted due to heavy rain.
Meanwhile, the officials said the largest contingent for participants in the International Yoga day function on Rama Bai Ambedkar ground would be of 14,500 activists of Patanjali, followed by 10,600 of NCC-NSS volunteers, 8,000 schools and college students, 5,200 of Gayatri parivar, 4,000 of Art of living, 800 of Brahma Kumaris, 2,500 of Defence and Central forces, 200 differently-abled and 80 foreign delegates.
There would be dress code of white T-shirt with logo of “Yoga for Harmony and Peace”, besides the area would have 50 big lED screens, 25 toilets, 19 water dispensing units and 3 medical booths.