Collector V. Vinod Kumar performes yogasana at the launch of YogAndhra -2025 campaign, in Anantapur on Wednesday.
| Photo Credit: R.V.S. Prasad

A month-long YogAndhra-2025 campaign to promote yoga was launched in Anantapur, Nandyal and Kurnool districts on Wednesday.

In Anantapur district, collector V. Vinod Kumar launched the campaign at indoor stadium in the city and along with several officials performed yoga. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Kumar said yoga should be made a part of life and every individual should join the YogAndhra initiative. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the International Yoga Day celebrations at Visakhapatnam on June 21 and as part of it, yoga month is being celebrated and urged people to register in the app that was launched for the campaign.

Nandyal Collector Rajakumari Gania launched the campaign by participating in a yoga session at the indoor stadium in the district headquarters along with Joint Collector C. Vishnu Charan, other officials, members of local yoga associations and students.

Ms. Rajakumari said people should make yoga a part of their daily life as by practicing yoga, one can relieve their physical and mental stress. The YogAndhra-2025 campaign has been taken up for a month on the instructions of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. Yoga masters at mandal and village level would be trained as resource persons in the first week of the month long campaign and they will conduct awareness sessions at the village and mandal level, she said.

She asked Ayush, medical and health department, panchayat raj and municipal administration departments to extend cooperation for the success of the campaign. She said the district has 24 tourist spots and plans are being drawn to conduct yoga session at temples and the tourist spots with 1,000 persons each.

Meanwhile in Kurnool, collector P. Ranjith Basha, Kurnool Municipal Corporation (KMC) Mayor B.Y. Ramaiah took part in the YogAndhra campaign.