CM Kejriwal said that the aim of the Delhi government is to ensure that every Delhiite does yoga daily.
New Delhi:
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday performed yoga asanas with hundreds of people at the Thyagaraj Stadium here on the occasion of International Yoga Day and said his government aims to teach it to school children.
Mr Kejriwal was joined by members Delhi’s Yogashala With his deputy Manish Sisodia at the stadium for a yoga session.
Addressing the participants in the programme, Mr. Kejriwal said that the aim of the Delhi government is to ensure that every Delhiite practices yoga daily.
“If the habit (of doing yoga) is inculcated in children, they will be associated with it for life. It is our aim to teach yoga to children and see how it can be introduced in schools,” he said.
The Delhi government has improved the health infrastructure in the city, but with yoga a part of their daily lives, people will not need to go to hospitals, he said.
about Delhi’s Yogashala In the program, Kejriwal said that he learned yoga for free and it would be free for the people of Delhi as well.
“We have to take yoga from the stage where thousands of people are practicing it, to the one where millions of people practice it. Some people criticize me for having free yoga classes. I learned it (yoga) for free in class 8.” So it will be free for the people. Because everything essential in life, like air, is free.”
More than 17,000 Delhiites, including men, women, rich and poor, practice yoga daily at 546 locations across the city under free classes. Delhi’s YogashalaChief Minister said.
During the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the Kejriwal government launched free online yoga classes for COVID-19 patients in home isolation. He said that more than 4,700 such patients participated in online yoga sessions conducted by trained instructors.
In a series of tweets, CM Kejriwal urged people to practice yoga every day for a healthy life.
Groups of Delhi residents who wish to practice yoga are provided with trained instructors by the Delhi government Delhi’s Yogashala Program.
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