The Government’s efforts to put yoga on the international map notwithstanding, many organisations are not doing enough to push this art among its employees, an ICICI Lombard Survey has revealed.

Nearly 51 per cent of the 1,300 respondents, spread across 30 cities, have said that their respective organisations neither conduct regular yoga sessions no do they encourage measures for its employees to take it up.

This finding — coming ahead of second international Yoga Day on June 21 -- may be an eye opener for policymakers. This is because a whopping 90 per cent of the respondents say that they are far more likely to practice yoga regularly should they get the required encouragement from their organisations.

ICICI Lombard conducted the nation wide survey in the age group of 22-45.

Commenting on the survey, Sanjay Datta, Chief-Underwriting, Claims & Reinsurance, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd, said: "The government’s efforts in getting yoga on the international platform must be lauded and at ICICI Lombard too, we have been committed to having our employees embrace the art besides having wellness as a key component of our insurance solutions.”

An encouraging number (68 per cent) believe that the art is as beneficial for the millennial generation as anyone with only 32 per cent believing that yoga is still best associated with the ‘older’ generation.

ICICI Lombard had already recognised yoga as an eligible preventive healthcare tool by making it part of an add-on cover attached to its regular health policy.

Srivats.kr@thehindu.co.in

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