Puttur: St Philomena College observes International Yoga Day


Media Release

Puttur, Jun 22: The department of Public Instruction, office of the Block Education Officer here, in collaboration with NCC wing of St Philomena Educational Institutions on June 21 celebrated the fourth International Yoga Day at St Philomena High School auditorium.

Puttur MLA, Sanjeeva Mathandoor after inaugurating the event said, "Yoga is a way to learn and understand spiritual India. In addition to being associated to the country's culture and heritage, it has become a mass movement across the globe in the quest for physical and mental health, which is crucial to the creation of a peaceful society."



Assistant commissioner of Puttur, H K Krishnamoorthy participated as chief guest. He said, "Yoga has become one of the unifying forces in the world."

President of Puttur taluk panchayat, Bhavani Chidanand delivered the presidential address.

Correspondent of St Philomena Educational Institution, Fr Alfred J Pinto, principal of St Philomena PU College Fr Vijay Lobo and vice president of Parent Teacher
Association of St Philomena High School, Dr Vijaya Saraswathi participated as guests of honour.

Under the guidance of yoga teacher Ramanna Rai, 250 NCC cadets of St Philomena Educational Institutions demonstrated yoga asanas.

NCC officers Lt Johnson David Sequeira, Peter Naresh Lobo, Clement Pinto, Roshan Sequeira, education coordinator Kukka M, Physical Education instructors Prakash D’Souza and Rajesh Moolya coordinated the programme.

BEO of Puttur, Sukanya D S welcomed the gathering.

Headmaster of St Philomena High School, Oswald Rodrigues proposed the vote of thanks.

Teacher of St Philomena High School, Rajshekhar compered the programme.

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Puttur: St Philomena College observes International Yoga Day



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.