People told to practise yoga regularly to maintain good health

Vijayawada: Minister for Endowments Velampalli Srinivas while participating in the International Yoga Day celebrations here on Friday, said that yoga is good for health and everybody should practice yoga for at least one hour daily to remain active throughout the day.

The Yoga Day celebrations were jointly organised by AYUSH and the State government at a function hall at Guru Nanak Colony here.

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy who was supposed to participate in the celebrations could not take part due to the programme at Kaleswaram Project in Telangana.

Mayor Koneru Sridhar, Central MLA Malladi Vishnu, Principal Secretary (Health) K S Jawahar Reddy, Municipal Commissioner M Rama Rao, AYUSH Commissioner P A Sobha, Krishna District Collector Md Imtiaz, Joint Collector-2 Babu Rao, corporator Devineni Aparna and AYUSH department members participated in the yoga exercises.

MLA Malladi Vishnu suggested that the AYUSH department should conduct similar programmes once in a month to take yoga to the people.