External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and minister of AYUSH, Shripad Naik, unveiled the logo for the International Yoga Day. India will observe its first Yoga Day on June 21 – the day was named by the United Nations last year following a proposal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address to the UN general assembly.
“The resolution was passed within a record time of 75 days and was the first resolution in which 177 countries had become co-sponsors,” Ms Swaraj said during her address, calling it a “world record”.
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- June 21 was declared as the International Day of Yoga by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 2014.
- Prior to this, in 2007, the UN had adopted October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, as the International Day of Non-Violence.
- Yoga logo was unveiled on 29th April 2015 and it has proper significance:
- the folded hands symbolise yoga
- the brown leaves symbolise the earth
- the green leaves the nature
- blue -fire
- the sun symbolises the source of energy and inspiration.
