Sunday, June 21, 2015

India sets two Guinness World Records on International Yoga Day at Rajpath


#InternationalYogaDay #Rajpath #NarendraModi Hats off to Prime Minister Narendra Modi – first for getting the UN to agree to accept that 21 June be declared as the International Day of Yoga. His next achievement was to bag two Guinness World Records for organizing a mega event on the occasion at Rajpath, New Delhi.
This has been reported in zeenews.com dated 21 June 2015.
The two records were for 'Largest number of participants' at 35,985 and 'Most number of nationalities' at 84. The earlier figures were 29973 and 49 respectively. The awards were presented to the Ministry of AYUSH by the representatives of Guinness World Records Ms Victoria from UK and Mr. Marco Frigatti from Italy.
The previous Guinness record was held by Vivekananda Kendra which organized a yoga event in Gwalior in 1995 in which 29,973 people had participated. Rajpath breaks that record after 20 years.
AYUSH is the acronym for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy. The Ministry of AYUSH was formed in 9th November 2014 for providing more healthcare to the public.
Incidentally – there are a couple of other exercises like aerobics and pilates that also help to keep people fit and are equally effective. Read more about this here.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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