In Pictures: How India Celebrated International Yoga Day 2021
International Yoga Day is celebrated every year on June 21. The UN General Assembly in 2014 overwhelmingly adopted a draft resolution, declaring June 21 officially a day when the world will mark Yoga Day. A record 177 countries supported the resolution. This year, the theme of 7th International Yoga Day is "Yoga for Well-Being" that highlights the importance of practicing yoga and how can it promote the holistic health of every individual. In India, PM Narendra Modi led the celebrations on Monday as he addressed the nation and said that yoga has become a source of inner strength among people amid the novel coronavirus pandemic and inculcated faith in them that they could fight the virus. PM Modi also said that India, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), will launch the M-Yoga application, which will have many videos of yoga training based on Common Yoga Protocol available in different languages of the world. Here are some pictures from across the country and India marked International Yoga Day:
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan performs Yoga at Maharaja Agrasen Park. Speaking to media on the occasion of International Yoga Day, he said, 'Relevance of Yoga has increased during #COVID19. Yoga has helped us to maintain our physical & mental health. We should make Yoga or other physical activities a part of our daily life. These will help us to increase our immunity against coronavirus.'
