The Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in collaboration with the United Nations System in Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Yoga Association will commemorate the first International Yoga Day at the National Museum here today. PM’s International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi will attend the function as the chief guest.
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran and UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Robert D Watkins will be present as special guests.
As part of the commemoration event, President of the Bangladesh Yoga Association Mohamed Harun will deliver a lecture on Yoga. A short documentary on Yoga will be screened followed by a live demonstration of various Yoga asanas by students of Yoga from the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre and the Bangladesh Yoga Association. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for the adoption of June 21 as the International Day of Yoga during his address to the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2014.
The resolution for the adoption of June 21 as International Day of Yoga was co-sponsored by 177 countries in the United Nations and adopted unanimously on December 11, 2014.
In the run-up to the International Day of Yoga, the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre has organized over the last two months a series of lectures and seminars on Yoga across the country.
