Jammu: Northern Army Commander Lt General Upendra Dwivedi on Tuesday led over 1.75 lakh troops and 75,000 families of the Northern Command to perform yoga and complimented the soldiers for incorporating yoga asanas into their daily routine in extreme high altitude areas.
The Army commander performed various yoga asanas at the forward areas of eastern Ladakh at a height beyond 15,000 feet on the International Day of Yoga, a defence spokesman said.
Lt General Dwivedi is on a four-day visit to Ladakh.
A large number of soldiers under the operational control of northern command and their families performed yoga with great enthusiasm throughout the command areas in the Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, officials said.
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the campaign on yoga was spread over last 60 days throughout the Northern Command from ‘Indus to Ganges’, they said.
“Over 1,75,000 soldiers and 75,000 families participated in the yoga classes with great enthusiasm throughout the northern command,” the defence spokesman said.
