Indian School of Business to train Andhra Pradesh ministers, officials

The Isha Foundation, ISB and the state government will team up to conduct this HRD exercise that will start on February 8, said officials.

Government top brass along with officials, MLAs and district-level officers are expected to take part in the training programme.

ISB professors will, meanwhile, participate in the on-going Isha Foundation’s programme on Inner Engineering on the last day i.e. January 31. “Isha-ISB group will work on efforts to collaborate management techniques with spirituality and government mechanisms to involve people and work on innovative ways to make people the ultimate beneficiaries of the government’s missions and campaigns,” the government clarified.

Meanwhile, the Isha Foundation has agreed to support AP in increasing its green cover on the lines of Tamil Nadu.During the second day of the yoga and meditation classes by spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev, held at Novotel in Madhapur, the attending officials were shown a documentary, Project Green Hands, a campaign to prevent and reverse environmental degradation and enable sustainable living.

The project, taken up by Isha Foundation, aims to create 10 per cent additional green cover in Tamil Nadu. The day-long session started with Isha Foundation’s Shambhavi Mahamudra, conducted with a series of Yoga asanas, kriyas and mudras.

Agreeing to it, Jaggi Vasudev said it should be turned into a People’s Movement. “Huge effort is needed; supportive relationships between urban and rural societies, government and industry is required to shape the course of the world,” he said.