The previous record of maximum number of yoga participants at a given time and place had clocked 55,524 in Mysore in the year 2017.
The day was special. It was the fourth International Yoga Day. The place was Kota city. With one lakh, five thousand verified participants performing 15 yoga exercises in half-an-hour, Kota city of Rajasthan, on Thursday, entered into the prestigious Guinness Book of World Records. The previous record of maximum number of yoga participants at a given time and place had clocked 55,524 in Mysore in the year 2017.
Executive officers in India on behalf of the Guinness Book of World Records, Ribeka from London and Swapneel conferred the certificate of world record to Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and Yoga Guru Ramdev at the RAC grounds where an estimated two lakh people are reported to have participated in the mass yoga camp on the International Yoga Day.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev conducted the yoga session which was attended by chief minister Vasundhara Raje, ministers, bureaucrats and local people at the RAC ground in the presence of two officials from the Guinness world records. After the Yoga session, the officials presented the Guinness world record certificate mentioning, “The largest yoga session was achieved by Government of Rajasthan, Patanjali Yogpeeth and District Administration at Kota (all India), at Kota, Rajasthan, India on 21 June 2018.”
The Yoga camp started at 5 o’clock at the armed constabulary ground and 15 yoga exercises of were performed for half-an-hour between 6.30 and 7 am. The number of participants in Yoga camp was counted through a set standard with advanced technology, barcode and drone cameras. The number of participants in the daylong event is yet to be formally declared. Coaching institutes like Allen Career powered the high turnout by getting 72,000 enrolled students to participate in the event.
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