Around 10,000 people will perform yoga asanas for 33 minutes from 6:30 am at Morhabadi ground on International Yoga Day on June 21. Chief Minister (CM) Raghubar Das has appealed State denizens to participate in the similar programmes at their level on the occasion.
While holding a review meeting on the preparedness for Yoga Day at the Project Building on Monday, he said International Yoga Day programmes should be organized in all the district headquarters, Educational, Government and Non-Governmental Institutions. He felt such an effort with help in spreading the cultural message of ancient India.
In order to carry out the several programmes related to the particular day, the Central government has marked Health, Medicine, Education and Family Welfare departments as Nodal Departments. Organizations like National Cadet Corps, Satyanand Yoga Mission, Pantanjali Yoga pith, Yogoda Satsang Society and Yoga Mitra Mandal are supporting the government for the same purpose.
Notably, the large number of people’s participation for Yoga across the nation and world is expected to register name in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The CM said that MPs, MlAs and various political parties are being requested to take part in the programmes of International Yoga Day.
Chief Secretary Rajiv Gauba, Development Commissioner RS Poddar, Principal Secretary to CM Sanjay Kumar, Health Department Principal Secretary K Vidyasagar, DGP DK Pandey and Secretaries of various departments were present in the meeting.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janta Party’s state wing has nominated senior leader lakshmi Chandra Dikshit as Yoga Chief for conducting the yoga day programmes within the political party’s units on June 21.