30 media houses awarded for their contribution towards promoting healthy living through yoga

Union Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday conferred awards to 30 media houses in recognition of their contribution towards promoting healthy living through yoga.

The awards at the first ‘Antarrashtriya Yoga Diwas Media Samman’ were presented under three categories.

Javadekar described the award as a unique honour to media organisations that contributed to promote yoga for the benefit of society.

“This event, the first of its kind, also marks a new trend of recognition of the endeavour of media organisations that go beyond news, views and advertisements, and work in mission mode for the larger benefit of society” the Union Minister said. Javadekar recalled that Lokmanya Tilak had launched the newspaper ‘Kesari’ as a medium to generate awareness towards ‘Swarajya’ (good governance).