3,000 outstation participants for IDY event

MYSURU: About 12,000 yoga participants from Karnataka will have the opportunity to participate in the International Day of Yoga celebrations in Mysuru on June 21. Around 3,000 participants will be from the rest of India. The theme for this year’s IDY — the eighth — is Yoga for Humanity.
The event will be managed by the Centre and the state will be only implementing and facilitating the authorities. The selection process for practitioners is completed and registration concluded late on Tuesday.
Yoga mats and pouches to keep mobile phones and footwear will be provided by the ministry of Ayush and participants will be asked to reach the venue before 5.30am. Thermal screening will be done before they are let in.
The last mass yoga demonstration was held in Ranchi and thereafter there was no national event owing to Covid.
District incharge minister ST Somashekar on Tuesday held a meeting with officers in Mysuru and disclosed that the Centre will manage the event. “State will only implement directions of the Centre. Centre government has stressed that to focus on quality and not quantity with regard to participants and the process is underway,” the minister claimed.
A high-level yoga committee of 23 members including chief minister, who is the chairman, and health minister, the deputy, will oversee all arrangements, Somashekar added. Ayush commissioner of Karnataka is nodal officer for the programme.
17 enclosures created
As many as 17 separate enclosures will be created within the Mysuru Palace of which 15 will be used and the remaining two will be been reserved. In each enclosure, about 1,000 participants from different sections of society including students, safai karmacharis, transgenders, and auto drivers will be given the opportunity to participate.
Negative-RTPCR report
Health minister K Sudhakar said fully vaccinated yoga practitioners will have an opportunity to participate in the programme. If not vaccinated, they must produce a negative RT-PCR test not older than 72 hours.
Health teams have been formed to examine the participants of their health conditions at all the entry points. Anyone having ILI symptoms like fever, cough, and cold will not be allowed to take part in the programme. Ambulance will be kept in reserve for any emergencies. About 170 mobile toilet units will also be set up.