Infrastructure crunch may delay new cops’ training

The recruits would undergo indoor and outdoor training in 103 centres,which include eight regular police training centres and schools located at Moradabad,Sitapur,Gorakhpur,Meerut,Unnao and Mirzapur.

The directorate has now decided to create Recruit Training Centres (RTCs) at 30 of the PAC battalions and Reserve Police Lines of 65 districts in the state.

While a majority of the PAC battalions are equipped with accommodation and classroom facilities,the directorate is likely to have a tough job on hand to get classrooms,hostels and bathrooms constructed at the police lines.

ADG (Training) Sulkhan Singh said: “We are making efforts to make the arrangements. The Police Housing Corporation has been assigned the task to construct the new buildings for accommodation,classrooms and other basic requirement. It is difficult to start the training in the next three months.”

The directorate and the housing corporation have to submit a progress report before the government in a review meeting on Tuesday. The necessary decisions will be taken later,he added.

A senior official with the financial section of the directorate said they had placed a demand of at least Rs 100 crore for construction at various proposed RTCs. But the government has so far sanctioned a mere Rs 25 crore.

Eight of the training centres and schools have infrastructure for 5,200 recruits while 30 of the PAC battalions have facilities to accommodate 10,000 trainees. But,the rest (19,800) have to go through the training at the RTCs.

While the arrangement for trainees is yet to be completed,the instructors have already been inducted for the same. These include 450 sub-inspectors (S-Is) and 364 retired teachers of various police training schools who have been selected for indoor teaching. One teacher is required for a class of 50 recruits,the official said,adding 1,300 instructors will be available for providing field training. For every 200 recruits,seven instructors are needed.

UP Police Recruitment & Promotion Board chairman V C Goel said: “The list of selected recruits is yet to be dispatched to the Establishment wing of the DGP Headquarters. The process of typing the particulars of the recruits in Hindi is taking time. The list is expected to be dispatched in the next seven days.”

Goel added: “Once the Establishment department gets the list,the recruits will be allotted districts from where appointment letters will be issued to them.” Once the letter is issued,the verification will be done,following which the recruits would undergo a one-month joining training before reporting to the training directorate. The process would take at least two months,Goel added.