Gujarat government has set a target of ensuring participation of one crore people in the state for the World Yoga Day celebrations on June 21.
Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama today held a meeting with representatives of social organisations, where he said the government was planning to rope in one crore people for the Yoga Day celebration, an official release said.
"We want to make participation on this day a mass movement. The aim is that more and more people take up yoga for health benefits," Chudasama said.
The minister has invited suggestions from NGOs in this regard, it said.
The United Nations had last year declared June 21 as World Yoga Day.
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While the Chief Minister said that 2000 pregnant women had taken part in the event, Rajkot District Collector Vikrant Pandey said 1600 women participated in the event.
He claimed they have broken an earlier record set by China.
"Nearly 1,600 pregnant women today took part in the 2nd International Yoga Day and broke the earlier record of 913 pregnant women performing yoga set in China. We have recorded the event and the recording would be sent to jury members of Guinness Book of World Records," Pandey said.
"All the women were maximum three months pregnant and were given special training before taking part in the event," he said, adding that 18 gynaecologists, health teams and 108 ambulance service were made available to meet any emergency.
The event was organised by the district authorities at Swaminarayan temple located on Kalavad road.
BJP state unit president Vijay Rupani, Collector Vikrant Pandey, RMC Commissioner Vijay Nehra, Mayor Jaiman Upadhyay, Deputy Mayor Darshita Shah also took part in anothet event organised on the Race Course ground.
Over 2.5 lakh people in Rajkot district took part in the event organised at nearly 260 places like government schools, colleges, government offices like PGVCL, Post Office, Western Railway (Rajkot division) and Saurashtra University.
