Question: Where was the two day International Conference on Yoga organized on 15-16 November 2019?
(a) Hyderabad
(b) Hrishikesh
(c) Rorkee
(d) Mysuru
Answer:
Related facts:
- Union Minister of State for AYUSH and Defence, Shripad Yesso Naik inaugurated two days International Conference on Yoga at Mysuru, Karnataka on November 15 2019.
- The theme of the conference is ‘Yoga for Heart Care’. More than 700 national and international delegates participated in the conference spread over ten technical sessions involving fifty resource persons & experts.
- The Government has introduced several schemes for promotion of Yoga among the people of our country. He said that the rewards of Yoga are so immense that people are easily motivated to adopt Yoga in their lives once they learn about its benefits.
- There is a need to introduce Yoga in the schools in the curriculum of physical education. The Ministry has constituted a Yoga Certification Board to address to certify individual trainers and accredit Yoga Training institutions.
- The Board’s programme is essentially a Voluntary scheme of Certification and will increase quality and standards in Yoga teaching and promote Yoga as a career skill.
- Yoga is an integral part of the 1.5 lakh primary health care centres under AYUSHMAN BHARAT. This will make learning Yoga and practicing it easier for the people all across the country.
- This conference is fifth in the series to commemorate the unanimous adoption of Resolution by the United Nations General Assembly during its 69th Session for observing 21st June as International Day of Yoga. After the UN declaration of International Day of Yoga since 2014, overwhelming interest towards Yoga has been witnessed from the international communities across the globe.
Links:
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1591713