A ray of hope for tribal youth

March 30, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 06:03 am IST - VISAKHAPATNAM:

Police personnel training tribal youth at a camp at Paderu in Viskahapatnam district.

Police personnel training tribal youth at a camp at Paderu in Viskahapatnam district.

Two hundred Girijan youths, including many girls, are in the final phase of a rigorous training programme (Spoorthi) and are simultaneously sharpening their skills in English, mathematics, etc. at Paderu to have a crack at the Staff Selection Commission examination and get into the Central Para Military Forces.

They are the first among the 500 youths from the Girijan families of Visakha Agency, selected by the District Police and the Integrated Tribal Development Agency, Paderu, for training to face the SSC test for selection of 63,000 constables in CPMF.

The programme for which the Visakha District Police and the ITDA, Paderu, came together, is the first of its kind in the Visakha Agency area, which still has some pockets under strong influence of the banned CPI (Maoist). Paderu Assistant Superintendent of Police A. Bapuji and ITDA Project Officer M. Hari Narayanan have planned the whole exercise. Right from filling up the application form to training them for theory test and physical fitness test, help has been provided to the tribal youths.

As many as 1,800 youths have turned up at the office of ASP where assistance in filling up the forms has been arranged free of cost. With the residential training programme, planned for 500 youths, including 200 women, screening has been done to bring the number to 1,500 for the test held for those who applied for CPMF. It went on for three days. “Getting selected for our training programme itself is a great achievement for these youths,” says Mr. Babuji. Mr. Babuji has said among those selected for the training are many from the interior villages and even if one gets selected as a constable for a para-military force, the impact will be very good on the remaining villagers.

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