Today, on the 9th International Yoga Day, a grand programme was organized at the Garrison Ground in Jabalpur. About 15 thousand people performed yoga simultaneously in the presence of Vice President Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar.
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Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that today not only the Sanskardhani Jabalpur, the state and the country, but the whole world has started following yoga and the credit goes to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, who himself is leading yoga for the world in the United Nations today.
The work of making yoga accessible to the masses is being done by the Prime Minister. This ancient concept of India is for the welfare of the world. Our concept of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam being adopted since thousands of years gives the message that the whole world is our family. We have given the message of to live and let live, our sages have tought us through Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaha that the first happiness is a healthy body and for this there is no greater means than yoga. While saluting Maharishi Patanjali, he mentioned his Ashtanga Yoga.
Chief Minister Chouhan called upon everyone in the programme that we do not have to do yoga only on the Yoga Day, but make it a part of our lifestyle. This energy has to be used in the development of the country. We can serve the country only by remaining healthy. He said that our Prime Minister Shri Modi and I do yoga everyday. The state government has decided that yoga education has been made compulsory in all schools.
Union AYUSH Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said that today Yoga has got a new identity at the global level. This Yoga Yatra, which started from the year 2014, continues even today. The achievement of this Yatra is that public participation in it has increased unexpectedly. Now it has taken the form of a mass movement. Sonowal said that this year’s International Yoga Day is unique in many ways. There will also be programmes like Ocean Ring, Yoga Bharatmala, Yoga Sagarmala. Yoga demonstrations will take place in the region from the Arctic to the Antarctic Ocean and in more than 40 countries along the Prime Meridian Line, falling on and around that line.
Union Minister of State for Steel and Rural Development, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Union Minister of State for Jal Shakti and Food Processing Industries, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel, Union Minister for AYUSH and Women and Child Development, Dr. Munjpara Mahendrabhai, Minister of State for AYUSH (Independent Charge) and Water Resources Ramkishore ‘Nano’ Kavre, MP VD Sharma, MP Rakesh Singh, Member of Rajya Sabha Sumitra Valmiki, MLA Ajay Vishnoi and Shri Ashok Rohani, President of Ramchandra Mission Kamlesh Patel ‘Daji’ were also among the distinguished guests.
The country’s prestigious programme started at 6 am with the national anthem at the Garrison Ground. At the programme venue, Yoga was practiced simultaneously on the broadcast message of yoga instructors from the stage through the LED screen. Various yoga postures and pranayama were practiced in the programme according to the Common Yoga Protocol set by the Government of India. Programmes of mass yoga exercises will be held in all public places, open grounds, gardens, school-colleges and places of historical and archaeological importance across the state along with the main programme on International Yoga Day at Garrison Ground. Yoga exercises were performed on the messages broadcast by Doordarshan and All India Radio from the Garrison Ground right up to the gram panchayat level. People from all sections of the society, all communities and all age groups participated in it. People also practiced yoga from home.
The programme was broadcast live across the country and in many countries of the world. A large number of school and college students, yoga practitioners from yoga related organizations, army jawans and home guards participated in the programme. In the programme, students with hearing and orthopaedic disabilities, transgenders and cancer and thalassemia cured patients also practiced yoga in groups.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar also met disabled yoga practitioners Sanjay Chakraborty and Manoj Kashyap in the programme.
