Union Minister of Ayush and Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbanand Sonowal inaugurated Yoga Mahotsav 2022, an event to commemorate 100 days countdown in run up to 8th International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2022 today at New Delhi.
This year the International Day of Yoga 2022 campaign will focus on the theme 100 days, 100 cities and 100 organizations till 21st June, 2022 across the globe. For the first time to celebrate Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, it will demonstrate Yoga at 75 Heritage Heritage/Iconic cultural sites on 21st June, 2022.
Ministry will propagate benefits of using WHO mYoga App, Namastey App, Y-break App. Various people centric activities and programmes will be launched on MyGov platform including Photo contest, quiz, discussion, pledge, poll survey, jingle etc.
In his inaugural address Sarbananda Sonowal said that IDY 2022 will be the 8th edition of International Day of Yoga organised by us.
The Minister said that as WHO’s Global Centre for Traditional Medicine is being established in India, it has incumbent upon India, which is equipped with deep wisdom of yoga and traditional health practices, to lead the world on the path of peace, well-being, better and affordable health.
He added that Under the leadership of our Prime Minister, since 2015 it has become a mass movement and has been recognized as biggest public initiative in the world . More than 250 million people are practicing common yoga protocol developed by Ministry of Ayush.