State bends, stretches into record books
NUMBER Cameras determined that 1.05 lakh performed yoga, beating previous record of 55,524 in Mysore
Rajasthan on Thursday created a world record bringing over a lakh of people together for a yoga session to mark the International Day of Yoga.
Two representatives from Guinness World Records, watched as Yoga guru Ramdev put the gathering, which included chief minister Vasundhara Raje, through a series of asanas at the RAC ground in Kota, the coaching hub of India.
The international private organisation then handed over a certificate to Raje and Ramdev. “The largest yoga lesson was achieved by Government of Rajasthan, Patanjali Yogpeeth and District Administration at Kota, Rajasthan, India on 21 June 2018,” the certificate read.
Nearly two lakh people were at the RAC grounds for the statelevel function, also attended by ministers, MLAs and bureaucrats.
Cameras set up at the site and drones determined that 1.05 lakh people performed the asanas, beating the previous record of 55,524 people in Mysore in 2017.
The yoga camp started at 5 am and the 15 exercises that were part of the protocol for setting a record were performed from 6.30 am to 7 am.
Raje, meanwhile, announced plans to set up a yoga centre with an ‘acharya’ to coach people at each district headquarters. She also asked Ramdev to set up an Acharayakulam in Kota, on the lines of the Vedic school set up by him near Haridwar. “Our culture considers the entire world as one family based on Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. The country could emerge as the `vishwa guru’ with the help of yoga,” Raje said.
Raje praised students at Kota for being a part of the yoga event. “It is the moment of pride that the world record in Yoga is being set at a place where the entire nation dwells,” she said, adding the importance of yoga increases in Kota as due to cut-throat competition, the students get tense and “nothing is better than yoga to beat the stress and tension”.
“’Yoga roots out all bad habits and tendencies from the body and soul,” Ramdev said.
Allen Career Institute played an important role in making the World record possible with 72,000 of its students, their parents, and teachers taking part the vent. The students reached the venue by bus, van and on foot from 16 campuses across the city.
State Health Minister Kalicharan Saraf, Agriculture Minister Phrabhulal Saini, legislators and top bureaucrats too attended the event.
“I am proud to be the part of an event that has set a world record and highly elated to have performed yoga on International Yoga Day,” said Aakriti Shrivastav, an IIT-JEE aspirant from Uttar Pradesh.
At Udaipur’s Narayan Seva Sansthan, over 500 differently abled people performed yoga, Prashant Agrawal, president of the sansthan, said.
JAIPUR:
The largest yoga lesson was achieved by Govt of Rajasthan, Patanjali Yogpeeth and District Administration at Kota, Rajasthan, India on 21 June 2018
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS