AHMEDABAD: Thousands of yoga enthusiasts have started preparing for the mega yoga demonstration on the GMDC-AES grounds which will take place between June 18 and June 21, and aim to create a world record. In the run up to the event, corporates, government departments and schools have joined hands to make the event a grand success.More than 75,000 schoolchildren in classes IX to XII will take part in the event and are being trained for it. District education officer Navneet Mehta claimed that every school in the city will send at least 30 children to the event. For mass publicity, the yoga anushthan core committee has hired more than 500 vehicles for a door-to-door campaign in the city.On Wednesday, a rally spreading awareness about the event was taken out in city. Sources in the education department claim that every college affiliated to Gujarat University has been asked to train and send students for the event. “Teachers at city schools have been trained in basic yoga postures so they can teach them to the children,” says Mehta. Private schools, like those run by the Ramanbhai Foundation , have also committed to participation in the GMDC event.FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO), the women’s wing of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) will also organize a yoga session for its members on Yoga Day. Some 40 members of the organization will perform yoga at a session conducted by certified yoga trainer Riri Trivedi. As facilitators, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will organise pre-event yoga training camps at various parks and gardens in every ward. “We have identified experts in each ward who will hold special introduction courses at various parks ahead of the event,” says a senior AMC official.