GS PAPER II: Important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability, e-governance- applications, models, successes, limitations, and potential; citizens charters, transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures.

Context: Prime Minister launched M-Yoga App on 7th International Day of Yoga 2021.

M-Yoga Mobile App

• GoI in collaboration with WHO has developed M-Yoga Mobile App
• M-Yoga app will provide many videos of Yoga training and practice based on common Yoga protocol in many languages.
• M-Yoga app will help in spreading Yoga world over and will contribute to the efforts of ‘One World, One Health’.
• It is also a great example of the fusion of modern technology and ancient science.
• This mobile app will be immensely helpful in the promotion of Yoga and wellness among people around the world, especially during the ongoing pandemic.
• It will play an instrumental role in re-rehabilitation of the health of the Covid patients who have recovered from Covid-19

Background:

• The Ministry of AYUSH and the World Health Organization (WHO) had jointly undertaken a project in mid 2019, focussingon mobile-Yoga.
• It envisaged the concept of the ‘Be Healthy, Be Mobile’ (BHBM) under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2030.
• Be Healthy, Be Mobile (BHBM) initiative is a global partnership led by WHO which supports the scale up of mobile health (m-Health) technology within the scope of the National Health system to combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

The m-Yoga project focused on four areas:

(1) Common Yoga Protocol for GeneralWellness;

(2) Yoga for mental health and resilience;

 (3) Yoga for Adolescents; and

(4) Yoga for pre - Diabetics.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1729072

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