Punjab to train youth for security jobs abroad

CHANDIGARH - The Punjab government has asked the state police to train English-speaking youth from the state to make them employable in western countries as security guards, according to Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, who is also the state’s home minister.

Speaking at a meeting of national security agencies in New Delhi Saturday, Badal said that the police have created state of the art training facilities in the Punjab Security Training Institute located at Jahankhelan near Hoshiarpur, 160 km from here, to train youth and organise their employment as security guards in western countries.

He said that Punjabis were basically a martial race and they loved to opt for security-related jobs, whether in police, armed forces or private security agencies. He said that the scope for well-trained guards was immense globally and Punjab wanted to capitalize on this by training youth professionally in the institute.

Badal added that over Rs.90 million were being spent to upgrade facilities at the training institute where nearly 100,000 youth could be trained in the next few years.