Overview

• Modi celebrated the 10th International Day of Yoga by highlighting record global participation and events like 300,000 practitioners on a Visakhapatnam beach
• He announced that WHO has declared India free of trachoma and cited an ILO report showing 64 percent of the population now benefits from social protection schemes
• Community change-makers such as Madhya Pradesh’s Suma Uike and members of the Pasmanda Muslim community described how self-help group training and welfare programmes bolstered self-reliance and access to health, housing and livelihood support
• State and party leaders convened mass listening events in Haryana during which Ayushman Bharat health cards were distributed and participants launched the 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' tree-planting campaign
• Political figures and grassroots beneficiaries across regions hailed the programme for spotlighting public health gains, environmental drives and citizen empowerment stories