7,500 students in Jammu perform 'Suryanamaskar'

February 18, 2013 Jammu: Over 7,500 students on Monday performed 'Suryanamaskar', a special sequence of yoga postures, here as part of Swami Vivekananda's ongoing 150th birth anniversary celebrations.

"Over 7,500 students in over 90 institutes in Jammu performed Suryanamaskar, a special sequence of yoga postures with 10 steps", North-India Samiti coordinator, Gain Chand told PTI.

This was organised as a part of the ongoing 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda, with a view to propagate the ideals of Swamiji among school students, he added.

Reports from other districts are still awaited as a target of 16,000 students from over 240 schools has been fixed for the Suryanamaskar programme in Jammu and Kashmir, Chand said.

A nation-wide Suryanamaskar programme is being carried out as part of Vivekananda's 150th birth anniversary celebrations with the aim to create awareness and interest among students to practice the Yogic exercise.

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