Bhopal, March 8 Following instructions to all police training schools in Madhya Pradesh to hold recitations of the Bhagavad Gita and Ramcharitmanas for new recruits, a top official of the department has now asked these institutions to play the 'Dakshinamurti Stotram' through loudspeakers at dawn.
Raja Babu Singh, the Additional Director General for Police Training, has issued a fresh directive to the state's eight training schools, which currently train about 4,000 men and women.
These trainees will join the Madhya Pradesh police force as constables in the coming months.
Singh said the 'Dakshinamurti Stotram' is a Sanskrit hymn attributed to Lord Shiva.
"Dakshinamurti is an aspect of Lord Shiva representing the ultimate cosmic teacher of super wisdom, yoga, meditation, and knowledge," Singh, an IPS officer of the 1994 batch, told