In UP, IITs, and IIMs to include Yoga in Curriculum

In UP, IITs, and IIMs to include Yoga in Curriculum

Leading management and technical institutes in UP will include yoga classes for the students and faculty members. The institutes are adding yoga classes to the curriculum which help future managers to maintain their cool and think objectively about the problem under the times of pressure. A senior faculty member of IIT Kanpur said that several IITs and IIMs have yoga as a part of their curriculum the efforts are on to expand them to other institutes. "The students and faculty members in these premium institutes face extreme stress conditions. The students are anxiety-ridden and this, often, makes them take steps like suicide. Yoga will help all of us to cope with the pressures and also focus on our work," said the faculty member who did not wish to be named. Sources told that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's yoga guru Dr. H.R. Nagendra has been given the responsibility to create the yoga package for these institutes. IITs in Chennai and Delhi have already included yoga in their curriculum and results have been highly favorable. Last year, IIM Ahmedabad also introduced lessons from the Bhagavad Gita which can help them in dealing with the corporate world.

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