PM Modi to celebrate International Yoga Day in Chandigarh tomorrow

He'll do yoga at city's Capitol Complex

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Chandigarh today at 9.50 pm to participate at 2nd International Yoga Day celebrations at Capitol Complex tomorrow morning. Union Territory of Chandigarh Administration has selected 500 master trainers to perform yoga and 30,500 participants have been issued electronic cards, confirming their seats. 4,000 paramilitary forces and 3,000 Chandigarh Police Personnel have been deployed for the event. This is the second visit of PM Modi to the Capitol Complex designed by the French Architect Le Corbusier- the first was in January this year when he met the French President Francois Hollande at this site and later addressed a business delegation from France in the city.

Two enclosures of 250 VVIPs each have been made. According to sources 100 VVIPs from Government of India will also witness the event in Chandigarh. International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) has submitted the trans-serial nomination of Le Corbusier's work to UNESCO and the final result is expected in July, this year.

This nomination has 17 sites of seven countries and Chandigarh's Capitol Complex is the biggest out of these 17 contenders. Ten nominated sites are from France and remaining are from Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Agrentina and India. The officials in UT of Chandigarh expect this event to highlight Chandigarh at international forum and earn it the publicity as arguably one of the best designed towns of India.