Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 23: Morning Walkers Association, Lohar-Manda Hill Top (Jammu city) organized a Yoga Shivir at Lohar-Manda Hill Top.
The Yoga Shivir, organized in collaboration with Bharatiya Yog Sansthan, Bhagwati Nagar (Jammu) and a social organization ‘YOGATVAM Jammu’, was organized with the aim to aware the walkers especially general masses who do not have a regular habit of morning walk and yoga.
Col Varinder Singh Jamwal (president, Bhartiya Yog Sansthan, Jammu) was the chief guest on the occasion while Ravinder Singh Jamwal (yoga expert) and Sahil Mehra (co-founder and president of YOGATVAM) were guests of honour.
Ashok Kumar Dogra and Pushkar Raj Chibber (yoga experts from Bhartiya Yog Sansthan, Jammu) along with Col Jamwal led the Yoga session. They taught the practical methods of yoga exercises to all the participants.
On the occasion, Col Varinder Singh Jamwal also started the membership drive of ‘YOG-MANJRI’- a quarterly magazine of Bhartiya Yog Sansthan with a yearly subscription of Rs 100.
Stating that the walk along the Manda Track and via High Court (HC) towards Lohar-Manda Hill Top is a god gift to the citizens of Jammu city, Sudershan Gupta (chairman of Morning Walkers Association) requested the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to join this walking track to Khanpur Nagrota Zoo in order to save this forest of botanical trees adjoining to Jammu city as the pollution of Jammu city is increasing day by day.
The morning walkers requested the Principal Secretary-cum-Commissioner of Forest Department and the Chief of Wildlife Warden Jammu to maintain and beautify both the tracks, save the trees from cutting of their branches, provide lighting at High Court track and start a drive under Urban Forestry Scheme for plantation of more botanical plants in Jammu city so that pollution of Jammu city can be neutralized or reduced.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion include Bansi Lal Choudhary (Association president), Dev Rattan Gupta (chief patron) and Rakesh Sharma (general secretary).
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