West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday participated in a yoga session along with school students and several officials in the Raj Bhavan here on the occasion of International Yoga Day.
Several educational institutions in the state celebrated the day by performing yoga on their campuses.
The Yoga Day events were also organised at the Eastern Command of the Indian Army at Fort William here and in many military stations.
Several students at Visva-Bharati, a central university, participated in a yoga programme held at ‘Natyaghar’ of the Theatre Department.
Students and teachers at IIT Kharagpur also took part in a yoga session at the Technology Students’ Gymkhana.
The International Yoga Day was celebrated at the National Institute of Homeopathy in Salt Lake and at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases in Kolkata.
Students of Jadavpur University’s Physical Education Department organised a programme on its campus to mark the occasion.
A programme was organised on the premises of the Victoria Memorial Hall, where students participated in a yoga session.
Several Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including the party’s former MP Dilip Ghosh, joined a yoga session at Eco Park in New Town on the eastern fringes of Kolkata.
The International Yoga Day is celebrated every year on June 21.
