RISHIKESH, March 22 -- The seven-day International Yoga Festival, jointly organised by the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam and the Uttarakhand government, will conclude on March 22, with closing ceremony by Governor Lt Gen Gurmit Singh (Retd). The festival was inaugurated on March 16 by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.

The success of the International Yoga Festival is attributed to Puneet Jain, a dynamic young officer who had recently taken charge as Managing Director of the Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam. Ever since, he has focussed his attention to making the International Yoga Conference a mega event. So far, more than 10,000 Yoga enthusiasts have received training in various forms of yoga at the conference.

Prateek Jain stated that this y...