Itahari, Apr. 5: The participants of the week-long character building (Yoga practice) organised by character building association of Nepal were given certificates amid a function here recently by Pranamurti Yogguru Kalyan Mitra.

At the concluding function of the training participated in by 50 men and women of Itahari municipal area, Pranamurti Yogguru Mitra said that Yogas help enhance the inner strength of a person to make the body healthy.

On the occasion, Dadhi Ram Acharya, Jagadish Bali, Radha Acharya, Padma Bahadur Shrestha and Keshav Sitaula narrated their experience of positive impact of practising yoga on the body. After the conclusion of the training event, a character building association of the Itahari branch was constituted with Narayan Bahadur Shrestha as the convenor.

Medini Sitaula, Dadhi Ram Acharya, Krishna Adhikari, Rajesh Shrestha, Dubu Sitaula, Keshav Sitaula, Vishnu Bahadur Basnet, Jagadish Bali, Arjun Basnet, Tanka Niraula, Saphala Pokharel, Radha Acharya, Pradeep Adhikari and Yuvaraj Pokharel are the members of the newly constituted district committee.

Meanwhile, the participants of the 6-month training on Dhaka weaving organised jointly by vocational training centre and Danchhi, Bhadrabas and Alapot VDCs were awarded certificates by instructor Ram Lal Shrestha.  Seventeen girls trainees attended the training programme.  The certificate distribution function was chaired by Danchhi VDC Cice-Chairman Shyam Prasad Pokharel.