{"id":5700,"date":"2019-08-31T06:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T06:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2019-08-31T06:07:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T06:07:17","slug":"prime-minister-confers-yoga-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/prime-minister-confers-yoga-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister confers Yoga Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi conferred Yoga awards to the winners of PM\u2019s Award for Outstanding Contribution for Promotion and Development of Yoga at New Delhi. These awards were announced during the International Day of Yoga, 2019 at Ranchi, along with the two winners of the previous year in an event being organized by the Ministry of AYUSH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PM also released a set of 12 commemorative postal stamps\ncomplementing the commitment of the Ministry of AYUSH to acknowledge the great\nwork and achievements of the great Master Healers of AYUSH Systems. The Prime\nMinister also launched 10 AYUSH Health and Wellness Centres (AYUSH HWCs)\nlocated in Haryana, in line with Ministry of AYUSH\u2019s commitment to make 12,500\nAHWCs functional in next three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winners of the year 2019 Yoga Awards are &#8211; Swami Rajarshi\nMuni of Life Mission, Gujarat in Individual-National category, Ms. Antonietta\nRozzi, Italy in Individual-International category, Bihar School of Yoga,\nMunger, Bihar in Organisation-National category, and Japan Yoga Niketan, Japan\nin Organisation-International Organisation category and Winners of 2018 Yoga\nAwards are Shri Vishwas Mandalik, Nasik, Individual- National category and the\nYoga Institute, Mumbai, Organisation \u2013 National category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister said, necessary improvements are being\nbrought in for roping in more and more professionals in not only in the field\nof modern medicine, but also the AYUSH. He also praised the idea of AYUSH grid,\nwhich will help remove a number of silos in this sector. Shri Modi said, the\ngovernment is keeping AYUSH in mind while planning over 1.5 lakh wellness\ncentres in the country. Of the 12.5 thousand AYUSH wellness centres planned,\naround four thousand are likely to be opened within this year, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH Shri\nShripad Yesso Naik congratulated the awardees on getting Prime Minister\u2019s Yoga\nawards. He said that Yoga is an insurance of health for which we don\u2019t have to\npay money. Recalling the contribution of the great visionaries of the field,\nthe Minister said, \u201cThe contributions of these master healers are unparalleled.\nReleasing these postal stamps with such grace, respect and beauty is one way to\npay homage for their passion towards the science, dedicated health services\ntowards the humanity. They worked hard as young people, to overcome challenge\nof limited resources and contributed immensely to the human kind. Today they\nare national pride.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;The Minister said\nthat the Prime Minister takes special interest in AYUSH system. It was his\ninitiative that Ministry of AYUSH will run 10% of the 1.5 lakh health and\nwellness centres across the country as part of Ayushman Bharat. He further\nelaborated that these Centres will be complementing the National Health Policy\n2017 that insisted upon integration and mainstreaming of AYUSH services in\nconventional health care delivery system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi conferred Yoga awards to the winners of PM\u2019s Award for Outstanding Contribution for Promotion and Development of Yoga at New Delhi. These awards were announced during the International Day of Yoga, 2019 at Ranchi, along with the two winners of the previous year in an event being organized by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[684],"class_list":["post-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-yoga-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}