A yoga outreach event is being organized by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) during the next two days in the nation’s capital, and as part of that event, 40,000 books and periodicals will be given away gratis.
According to Aparna Singh, the wife of CISF director general (DG) Sheel Vardhan Singh, the publications of the Bihar School of Yoga, Munger will be shown during an exhibition being held on August 8 and 9 at the paramilitary force’s headquarters, which is housed in the CGO’s building at Lodhi Road.
“We have titled this project ‘Gyan Yagya’ and over the next two days, we will give up to 40,000 copies of 130 volumes on yoga in both English and Hindi. A user may choose up to 10 books at no charge, she said.
“A year-long yoga outreach is being conducted across the country and the world as an offering of yoga to society for health, happiness, and harmony,” Aparna Singh said. “This year is the centenary celebration of Swami Satyananda Saraswati.”
According to the CISF’s deputy inspector general for operations, Shrikant Kishore, the organization has trained about 1.40 lakh members of the armed forces and their families in yoga. In addition to inviting the general public to the book exhibition, the CISF has also invited personnel from other central armed police forces (CAPFs) and other government agencies with offices in the CGO complex.
The CISF, a force under the Union home ministry, is largely used to defend important sites in the nuclear, aerospace, and other sectors, as well as major public airports. It has a sanctioned strength of roughly 1.63 lakh soldiers.