Cops help SC,ST youths get jobs

The Sonbhadra Superintendent of Police (SP),Preetinder Singh,said the youths from different villages of Naxal affected areas ¿ Kon,Manchi,Raipur,Pannuganj,Karma,Pipri and Windamganj —were picked up for the jobs. These youths belong to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families and could not study beyond Class V. They had no jobs and were easy targets for Naxal groups.

He said they talked to the officials of Bombay Intelligence Security (BIS),which supplies security guards to the Jaypee group in and outside Sonbhadra district. As the company agreed to engage the youths,the police selected 35 of them and provided them one-month training. These youths are now employed as security guards with the unit of Jaypee group in Sonbhadra.

Besides,they contacted the L&T authorities who agreed to train youths at their technical institute in Sonbhadra. The 30 youths who are undergoing two-month training there also getting Rs 1500 stipend. These youths will be engaged at different sites of L&T after the training and will be getting a monthly salary of Rs 6,000-8,000,the SP said.

Singh said they are in the process of selecting 100 more youths from villages for training at the Delhi institute of L&T from the next month.

He further said the they will also make an arrangement to provide computer training to Class XII pass youths from these areas. Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi’s organisation indiapolice.in,which provides computer education to the wards of policemen across the country,has agreed to provide training to the youths of tribal areas of Sonbhadra.

Singh said they already have purchased a few computers while some computers have been provided by Bedi’s organisation. Bedi’s organisation will send its instructors for two-month training to selected youths and will issue certificates to successful students. The organisation has also assured to employ those youths whoa re found extraordinary during the training.

The training is expected to begin next month,the SP said.