PM Narendra Modi joined schoolchildren and government servants to perform yoga at Rajpath on June 21.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to put the nation's top police officers on the mat. Literally. The yoga mats will be out at 7.30 am on December 19, the annual conclave of the top officers and attendance is mandatory for their spouses too.
The classes - conducted by five professionals -- will be part of the three-day conference that starts the day before. And the Prime Minister will attend them too, said PC Thakur, the Director General of Gujarat police.
The officers first got the intimation when their invitations - issued by the Intelligence Bureau -- asked them to pack their track suits for the conclave, to be held at the Rann of Kutch.
But it won't be the day's first event for them. Another item has been added on the convention's itinerary that is expected to contribute to the officers' well-being - witnessing the sunrise and sunset in Kutch.
In a first, the Prime Minister will spend nearly three days with the officers. The 12-hour sessions each day will include discussions on threat to internal security, coastal security, radicalisation, ISIS and social media.
The Prime Minister, a yoga enthusiast, had last hit the mat in public on Delhi's Rajpath on June 21, the International Yoga Day. Around 35,000 school children, bureaucrats and diplomats had participated in the event.
It was the Prime Minister's initiative that led to the dedication of the day to Yoga by the United Nations, with support from 177 countries. On the occasion, the government had organized Yoga events across 192 member countries of the United Nations.