18th Assam Yoga Mahotsav inaugurated in Hojai town

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NAGAON: The 18th Assam Yoga Mahotsav was ceremonially inaugurated on Thursday at the Jugal Kishore Kedia Bhawan in Hojai town.

The inaugural ceremony was attended by several dignitaries, including Prof. Manabendra Dutta Choudhury, vice-chancellor of Rabindranath Tagore University; MLA, Lumding Shibu Mishra; and Ramkrishna Ghosh, MLA of the Hojai constituency.

During the inaugural session, Swami Bhaveshananda Maharaj, secretary of Ramkrishna Mission Ashram, Ranchi, Jharkhand, was conferred the Swami Sivananda Saraswati Yoga Prerana Award by Prof. Manabendra Dutta Choudhury and MLA Ramkrishna Ghosh. A total of 17 distinguished individuals were also felicitated with various awards. The inaugural session was mentored by Dhananjay Talukdar, the chief advisor of Yoga Sanskritik and Yoga Chikitsa Kendra, Guwahati. The inaugural ceremony was followed by a colourful yoga procession, which was flagged off by local MLA Ramkrishna Ghosh. A yoga cultural programme and an inter-yoga college yoga competition were also organized, in which participants from various districts of the state took part. It’s reported in a press note here that during the month-long celebration of Yoga Mahotsav, various social programmes, including yoga awareness meetings, blood donation camps, street plays, Reiki awareness, and yoga competitions, will be organized across the state. The celebration of Yoga Mahotsav will come to an end on January 12, 2025, next in Guwahati.

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