Over 3000 yoga lovers will take part in the fifth International Yoga Day . The event is being organised by the Chandigarh Administration and AYUSH Department at Sector 17 Plaza.
The participants will be given yoga mats and t-shirts as well. The event started at 5 am for around three hours. VP Singh Badnore, the Governor of Punjab, was chief guest on the occasion.
Participants had been registered through the Chandigarh Yoga Association, Government College of Yoga Education and Health, as well as Patanjali and Art of Living, which organises daily Yoga camps in their own capacity.
Besides the plaza, yoga sessions will be held at 48 other places where AYUSH department has been maintaining Yoga instructors on an honorary basis for three years now.