After yoga, central government promotes outdoor sports like jungle safari, rafting

After yoga, the central government is keen to inculcate the habit of healthy living among its employees. Therefore, it is now promoting outdoor activities among its employees. These outdoor activities include trekking, mountaineering, rock-climbing, cycling in a difficult terrain, skiing, surfing, boat sailing, snorkeling, rafting, parasailing ballooning, paragliding, jungle safari, desert safari, beach trekking and environmental awareness camps.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com date 4 October 2015.

There are about 50 lakh central government employees and the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) will be making available financial assistance of up to Rs 20,000 and special casual leave to the employees so that they can participate in such activities.
Six institutes have been approved for this purpose by the government. These are – 1 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali, Himachal Pradesh. 2 Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering, Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir 3 National Institute of Water Sports, Vasco da Gama, Goa 4 Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand 5 Swami Vivekanand Institute of Mountaineering, Mount Abu, Rajasthan 6 Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam Ltd, Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Moreover, a decision has also been taken to open gyms at workplaces – these would help the employees increase their productivity and lead to "decreased absenteeism and reduced usage of sick leave".
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