Initiatives are being taken by the government for the intellectual development and better physical fitness of the students along with stress management in the educational institutions of the state. For the first time, six months diploma course of Yoga is being started by the Technical Education Department for the students of engineering and polytechnic colleges of the state from the academic session 2022-23.
The department will conduct this course through Indira Gandhi National Open University. In the first phase, 200 students of 5 engineering and 15 polytechnics will be taught yoga. In the second phase, 200 students of 20 polytechnic colleges will be given yoga training. This is a big step in the direction of making engineering colleges also multidisciplinary in the National Education Policy- 2022.