On 14th January, 2022, which one of the following ministries has organized a global Surya Namaskar Demonstration programme?
- (a)The Ministry of Culture
- (b)The Ministry of AYUSH
- (c)The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
- (d)The Ministry of Tourism
Correct — B, the Ministry of AYUSH. On 14 January 2022, coinciding with Makar Sankranti, the Ministry of AYUSH organised a global Surya Namaskar demonstration programme. AYUSH is the nodal ministry for yoga and traditional Indian systems of medicine, so an event promoting Surya Namaskar (a yoga sequence) falls squarely within its mandate.
- (a)The Ministry of Culture — Culture handles heritage, arts and festivals, but yoga promotion and Surya Namaskar events are led by the Ministry of AYUSH.
- (c)The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare — Health & Family Welfare deals with mainstream medicine and public health; traditional systems and yoga sit under the separate Ministry of AYUSH.
- (d)The Ministry of Tourism — Tourism promotes travel and destinations, not yoga demonstrations, which are the remit of AYUSH.
AYUSH stands for Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy. The Ministry of AYUSH is responsible for education, research and promotion of these traditional systems, and it is the ministry behind national yoga initiatives, including International Day of Yoga and mass Surya Namaskar events.
The clue is that Surya Namaskar is a yoga practice, and yoga is the domain of AYUSH. Once you link 'yoga' to 'AYUSH', the distractor ministries (Culture, Health, Tourism) are ruled out even without recalling the specific 14 January 2022 event.
- AYUSH = Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa, Homoeopathy.
- The Ministry of AYUSH is the nodal ministry for yoga in India.
- The 14 January 2022 global Surya Namaskar demonstration was organised on Makar Sankranti.
- AYUSH also spearheads the International Day of Yoga observed on 21 June each year.
- Assigning a yoga event to Health or Culture instead of the dedicated Ministry of AYUSH.
- Forgetting that yoga is administratively separate from mainstream health under AYUSH.
As a current-affairs item linking a government event to the correct nodal ministry.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
In AYUSH, the letter 'Y' stands for which system?
- (a)Yoga
- (b)Yunani
- (c)Yogic surgery
- (d)Yajna therapy
Answer(a) Yoga — AYUSH = Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa, Homoeopathy.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The International Day of Yoga, promoted by the Ministry of AYUSH, is observed every year on
- (a)21 June
- (b)14 January
- (c)2 October
- (d)5 September
Answer(a) 21 June — the summer solstice, adopted by the United Nations in 2014.