Officials keen to make rural people participate in Yogandhra-2025
Vizianagaram Collector B.R. Ambedkar and Joint Collector Sedhu Madhavan directed all Mandal-level officers to make people living in rural areas also to participate in Yogandhra-2025, which is a month long programme being observed between May 21st to June 21st, 2025. According to the officials, around 4,400 yoga trainers were identified to train the people under this programme named as One Earth-One Health.
The Mandal-level officials have to make people enrol in the yoga portal which would in turn help them to know about the nearby yoga centres and trainers.
Vizianagaram Municipal Commissioner P. Nallanayya said that mass yoga programme would be conducted on May 26th in Vizinaagaram under the guidance of yoga trainers. Senior yoga trainer Borra Kaleswara Rao hailed the government initiative and said that this mass yoga programme would make people know about the importance of fitness and healthy habits in their day to day life.
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