Rajnath Singh rolls out 'Student Police Cadet' project in Gurugram

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday here rolled out the Student Police Cadet SPC programme under which high school students across the country will be taught to become much more responsible citizensSpeaking at the formal launch at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium here he said that the SPC programme for students of classes 8 and 9 will be implemented across the country with a vision for citizens to respect and follow laws willingly practice responsible behaviour towards others demonstrate empathy for weaker sections of society and participate in tackling community issuesA sum of Rs 67 crore had sanctioned to states for the programmes implementation and each school would get Rs 50000 for educational aids training and contingency for the programme to be carried out on pilot basis in all states and union territoriesRajnath Singh said that the venture aims to unlock the potential of Indias youth and make them capable of becoming social leaders with global vision guided by humanitarian values India has the worlds largest population of youth and there is a paradigm shift in the policing function from enforcement to facilitation of law he saidReferring to the illeffects of rapid modernization and incidents aired on news TV and social media on daily basis he said that they put a negative impact on entire society and there was a need to give moral character education at both home and schoolThough it is a tough task and would take a long time but we have to achieve this Keeping this in view SPC is being launched at national level to help in building a bridge between the police and the larger community through school students by inculcating values and ethics in them he addedUnion Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar who was also present said that the SPC programme works on EducationValuesLaw linkage to enable school community to create safe school environment with confident and discipline youthIt will also facilitate development of good health physical and mental fitness self control and discipline in youth while enabling youth to work with police in this project he said adding teachers will be trained by police to act as Community Police Officers CPO and Additional CPOsNoting that students of classes 8 and 9 form nearly 4 crore of the 26 crore students across the country Javadekar said that programme including classes physical training field visits SPC camps and practical projects will be first introduced in the government schools and later will be extended to the private educational institutesStudents will be studying about law and constitution communication skill disaster management health and hygiene and about setting goal he saidHaryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar described the SPC programme a milestone and assured that priority would be given to these cadets in the Haryana Police recruitment drivesOver 7000 students both boys and girls from across the country participated in the launch programmeUnion Minister Rao Inderjit Singh who is the Gurugram MP Union Minister of State for Home Hansraj Ahir Haryana minister Rao Narbir Singh and several MLAs were also presentCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Except for the change in the headline the story has been provided ASIS AS AVAILABLE without any verification or editing from our side Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever