We will further continue our efforts to promote Yoga globally as the world celebrates 21st June as the International Yoga Day. We will promote Yoga as a vital method to achieve physical wellness and spiritual rejuvenation across the globe and will continue to work towards training of Yoga practitioners. We will undertake a rapid expansion of Yoga health hubs, Yoga tourism and research in Yoga.

The 2019 promise on yoga has four limbs: continue promoting yoga globally around International Yoga Day, train yoga practitioners, and "undertake a rapid expansion of Yoga health hubs, Yoga tourism and research in Yoga."

On the observance itself, the record is real and the money has grown. The Ministry of Ayush told the Lok Sabha on 7 August 2026 that the day was marked in 166 countries in 2021, 172 in 2022, 183 in 2023, 182 in 2024 and 163 in 2025. Its own spending on the day ran between ₹15 crore and ₹26 crore a year through the 2010s, dipped to ₹2.84 crore in the pandemic year of 2021, and reached ₹57.38 crore in 2025 — the largest single-year figure in the series. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations' overseas spending rose steadily from ₹5.33 crore in 2021 to ₹18.13 crore in 2025.

Institutional work sits behind the events: the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga is a WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine (Yoga), and the Yoga Certification Board runs certification and accreditation schemes accessible internationally, which addresses the manifesto's commitment on training practitioners.

Then comes the sentence that determines this entry's verdict. Asked whether any assessment of the day's impact had been made, the ministry replied: "No comprehensive assessment specifically evaluating the impact of IDY on promotion of Yoga, Ayurveda, tourism and India's cultural diplomacy has been undertaken."

Eleven years of observance, more than ₹225 crore of central spending on the ministry's own figures, and no evaluation of whether it moved yoga practice, ayurveda uptake, tourist arrivals or India's standing. Nor does the ministry hold the basic activity data: "The details regarding number of events organised and estimated participants, country-wise and year-wise, are maintained by the respective Missions/Posts."

Two of the promise's specific limbs are also unaddressed in the answer. "Yoga health hubs" and "Yoga tourism" are named nowhere in it, and no figure for either appears.

That is why the accuracy here is recorded as unverifiable. Something substantial was organised, at growing cost, in most of the world's countries. Whether it did what it was for is a question the government has chosen not to ask.