Yoga, meditation drive to pep up MTC staff

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On Friday, 65 MTC staff including conductors, drivers and even depot managers were seen busy practising yoga and doing meditation under the guidance of seven yoga gurus at metro Transport Corporation’s (MTC’s) ITI campus in Chromepet as part of the three-day training session. MTC has now made yoga compulsory for its bus crewmembers and officials.

“The courses will be conducted in the first and last weeks of every month, but only on Friday, Saturday and Sundays as they are lean days in regard to the movement of passengers.

This compulsory course will be held for drivers, conductors, branch managers, checking inspectors and engineers.

Only two from a depot will be called for the classes at a time,” Mr Balakrishnan, an official from MTC’s training centre told DC.

The training session starts with ‘Ajna’ meditation that will rejuvenate an individual, followed by personal discipline classes, which will help them control anger and maintain discipline at any circumstances.

They will be taught kayakalpa technique of siddhas, which help to maintain youthfulness and physical health on second day, and they will be trained on a technique called ‘shanti’ on final day.

An MTC official told that the classes had been made mandatory for all 10,000 employees and officials, barring clerical staff.

“Though yoga classes had earlier been conducted for the bus crew, it was stopped in 2009. It was decided to start yoga classes after MTC buses met with a spate of freak mishaps, besides increasing instances of complaints against conductors regarding their behaviour with passengers,” noted a senior MTC official.

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