Training provided to census-takers in Kashmir Valley

May 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Srinagar, May 7 (ANI): As part of the preparations for the Population Census 2011, preliminary training sessions are being organized in the Kashmir Valley.

Around 3,200 employees of the state government from Srinagar and Ganderbal districts and Handwara Tehsil (block), attended the training sessions in various centers across the state.

“The training for the census started on May 5. There will be a refresher course on May 12. At the moment, the enumerators, supervisors and other staff involved number up to 3,000 in district Srinagar. We have provided training to supervisors and enumerators at 22 training centers,” said Mukhtar Aziz, Census Officer.

Along with the census-training, trainees were also briefed to motivate locals to participate in the census.

“Training will help in increasing efficiency of our work. We were taught the procedure to fill in forms and other formalities, so that when we go to the field we fill in the right information,” said Haneef, a trainee.

The 2011 census will start on May 15 in the state.

Around 33,000 employees of the state government would carry the two-phased census process.

As per the census of 2001, the population of Jammu and Kashmir was somewhat above of 10 million.

During the last census in 2001 the separatists had called for the boycott of the census but this time round, all political groups are supporting it, and are asking people to participate in it. (ANI)

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Expo offers job hope

April 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

A teenager who secured employment at Wollongong’s recent Jobs Expo says the opportunity has changed her life.

Megan Harding, 19, was among 13 hospitality trainees to meet the federal Member for Cunningham, Sharon Bird, yesterday.

Ms Harding, of Towradgi, is now involved in a 16-week training program at some of Wollongong’s tourism hospitality venues.

She says she was unemployed for more than a year, despite getting a hospitality qualification after leaving school.

“It’s been really tough. I’d been sending hundreds and hundreds of applications and hadn’t got a job out of it,” she said.

“I was planning on going … my sister was an exhibitor there and she rang me and said, ‘get down here because they’ve got over 400 jobs going’.

“So I got down there and I found it really good because it gave me a chance to meet the employers directly.”

Ms Harding says the region would benefit from holding the event again soon.

“I think it’s one of the best thing that’s ever happened and it’s such a good opportunity to meet employers face-to-face.” she said.

“I think it’s a good opportunity for employers. I think it’d be really beneficial to have again … it’s such a great opportunity and I feel really thankful for it.”

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Recruitment drive for specialist fire fighters

March 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Air Services Australia is seeking more Tasmanian recruits to become specialist fire fighters.

The service has 600 fire fighters based at 21 airports around Australia.

Tasmanian trainees responded to a mock aircraft fire at Hobart Airport today.

They were put through their paces learning emergency procedures and first aid.

Trainee, Tim Dabrowski, says the exercise was confronting.

“[You] think to yourself ‘Wow, can I handle this’?”

“But as the weeks wear on instructors are with you the whole way, sort of lead you through the exercises, but it’s definitely an enjoyable time.

“It’s been a challenge for the last 10 weeks, let alone the rest of my life.

“You can challenge yourself everyday, you don’t get bored with the job,” he said.

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Unemployed Sikkim youth receive traditional Buddhist art training

March 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Gangtok, Mar 15 (ANI): Sikkim”s Handicrafts and Handloom Department is imparting training to the unemployed youth in an attempt to promote and preserve ethnic Buddhist arts and crafts.

The institution is a unique combination of training-cum-production spread over 20 centres in Sikkim.

Boys and girls in the age group of 14 to 24 years, learn the skills of this traditional art to earn a living out of it and make their future bright.

“There are less opportunities in village. So in order to make our future bright I have come to this institution to learn the art. In this institution we are learning the basic skills and also receiving stipend at the same time,” said Passand Bhutia, a trainee.

“After receiving training, we can work in this institution on a contract basis. We are learning more about our traditional art and also making our future bright,” he added.

The youths are being trained in hand-woven carpets with traditional motifs, blankets, Angora and Lepcha woven shawls, ”thangka” paintings, woodcarvings, hand-painted masks and toys.

According to the Assistant Director Chozang Lepcha, the trainees receive a stipend of 700-900 rupees, which helps them become self-independent.

“All the trainees come either from our own city or from far-flung areas. They are either unemployed or school dropouts because of their poor economic conditions. Therefore government is providing them stipend depending on their period of training,” said Chozang Lepcha.

“During the first year of their training, trainees receive a stipend of 700 rupees per month and after one year they receive 900 rupees per month. The stipend is given to them so that they can become independent and confident to earn a living,” added Lepcha.

Directorate of Handloom and Handicraft, which was earlier known as the Palden Thondup Cottage Industries, was established in the year 1957 by the then king of Sikkim, Sir Tashi Namgyal. (ANI)

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ICICI Bank, HUL among world’s best cos for leaders

November 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

New York: Indian private sector lender ICICI Bank and global consumer goods giant Unilever’s India-based subsidiary have been named in a list of world’s 10 best companies for leaders.

The list, compiled by business magazine Fortune, is topped by global technology giant IBM. Proctor & Gamble has been ranked second, followed by General Mills and McKinsey at third and fourth position respectively.

Fortune said the list has been compiled by ranking the most successful businesses that are the best at developing employee talent.

With a revenue of $7.4 billion and 36,335 employees, ICICI Bank has been ranked at the fifth position. Hindustan Unilever, the Indian arm of Unilever, has been ranked 10th.

About ICICI Bank the magazine said, “ICICI doesn’t just have recruiters trolling for talent outside of the company; it also has 600 employees who act as talent scouts internally, identifying coworkers with leadership potential.”

The internal recruiters tap 5,000 candidates a year, adding that these trainees are the only employees who get company stock options, the magazine said.

Hindustan Unilever, which has 15,000 employees, likes to think of itself as a talent factory. And with more than 1,000 alumni sitting on boards globally, it can certainly make a strong case for that, the magazine said.

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Chidambaram blames Pak of deliberately holding up 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks probe

September 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep.5 (ANI): Expressing India’s utter disappointment over the way the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks probe is being handled in Pakistan, Union Home Minister P.Chidambaram on Saturday blamed the Pakistan Government for deliberating holding it up.

Chidambaram said the Government of India was thoroughly and totally dissatisfied by Pakistan’s response.

“We are thoroughly and totally dissatisfied by the Pakistan Government. The trial in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks hasn’t opened as yet,” said Chidambaram in an interview to Al-Jazeera channel on Saturday.

Remarking about Pakistan’s conduct so far in the 26/11 probe, Chidambaram said “Pakistan was deliberately holding it up”.

To a question asking if he thought Pakistan was stifling the case deliberately, Chidambaram replied: “Regrettably, but Yes.”

Listing out evidence given by India to the Pakistan to felicitate the 26/11 probe, Chidambaram talked about the Mumbai terror attacks’ mastermind Hafiz Saeed.

“Hafiz met 26/11 terrorists during Dec. 2007, and Jan.2008 in PoK training camps and named them. Hafiz selected the trainees and finally it was Hafiz who game Kasab a new name “Abu Mujahid” at the camp,” said Chidambaram and added “Hafiz was being accompanied by a “Major General Saab” at the terrorists training camp.”

Chidambaram said in the interview that one of the training camps was conducted at a mountain range, near Peshawar where Hafiz accompanied this Major General Saab.

“To any investigator or prosecutor the evidence that we provided about what Hafiz said, what he did, what his role was, where he was ….if that is not the evidence, then what is?” Chidambaram remarked and questioned the Pakistan authorities’ integrity saying: “What’s the prosecution in Pakistan doing.?”.

“Pakistan doesn’t scares us, it worries us,” said Chidambaram. (ANI)

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Editorial nails Pakistan’s ‘no terror camps on its soil’ lie

August 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Aug.20 (ANI): While Pakistan has been denying the presence of terror camps on its soil, an editorial in a leading English daily of the country suggests that Islamabad and also the international community were aware about such camps operating along the Line of Control (LoC).

“The entire world knew about them. Pakistani journalists knew about them and accounts were written about the heroism of their inmates in in-house journals that jihadi organisations published and circulated all over Pakistan. The truth is that Pakistan gave itself a bad name and endangered its own security at the hands of these ‘trainees’ later on,” the Daily Times editorial said.

While New Delhi has accused Islamabad of abetting these terror camps to carry out attacks against it, Pakistan says it is working ‘sincerely’ to dismantle the terror safe haven, but it can hardly guarantee that there is no planning going on inside Pakistan by for more attacks on India.

“It has already admitted to it in the past: it had no clue that a ‘charity organisation’ (JuD) was plotting the 2008 Mumbai attacks and wants more evidence from India to punish those who did it,” the editorial said.

It said that it is a mistake on part of Pakistan to think that these camps could not be located.

“Training camps are not something that can be concealed from the world in these days of satellite photography. Pakistan would be foolhardy in restarting something which has not succeeded in the past and which endangers its own internal security now,” it went to add.

The editorial stressed that it was important for both countries to restart the stalled bilateral talks in order to settle all impending issues.

“Given the circumstances, our suggestion to Prime Minister Singh is that he should decide quickly about restarting the stalled dialogue with Pakistan,” the editorial concluded. (ANI)

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Malay Indian restaurants to have no more cooks from India

August 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Aug 13 (ANI): Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister S. Subramaniam has said that Indian restaurants will mostly have Malaysian, and not Indian cooks.

He said there has been an encouraging response from locals to being trained as cooks under a ministry programme.

“We hope to reduce the number of cooks from India in stages, especially in Indian restaurants, once the first batch of locally-trained chefs graduate,” he told reporters after visiting the CQ Tec College here yesterday.

The college received its first batch of 25 trainees for an intensive, six-month programme in June, The Star reported.

Subramaniam said the fees for the trainees were borne by the ministry through the Human Resources Development Fund, adding that they would also receive monthly allowances.

“Once they graduate, they will be able to open their own restaurants,” he said, adding that the future was promising for Indian youths of Malaysian origin.

He said Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, who wanted the ministry to train local chefs and not depend on cooks from India, mooted the idea.

Another training programme undertaken by the ministry was hair styling, to replace barbers from India.

“We want the two sectors (restaurants and hair salons/barber shops) to rely less on foreign workers and employ locally-trained people,” he said. (ANI)

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July 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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Jharkhand police train youth from Maoist infested belts

May 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Ranchi, May 29 (ANI): In a novel initiative, the Jharkhand Police is imparting vocational training to the unemployed youth of Maoist infested belts to enable them earn a livelihood as well as join the mainstream.

About 250 youth from the Maoist infested areas are presently being trained for recruitment in army, paramilitary forces and state police. Besides, they are being given training in driving is also being imparted to them.

It is intended also at bringing back the youth, who are moving towards left extremism because of unemployment, to the mainstream.

According to Superintendent of Police (SP), Ranchi, the initiative is sure to break the local support base of the Maoists, who recruit a large number of local youth every year.

“Our main concentration was rural areas. Because we know that those living in big cities will get this opportunity anytime because of their geographical location. But those living in villages don’t even have access to newspapers and basic information. There are many unemployed youth who are school dropouts and are idle. They do not even try or don’t have the right channel to do anything,” said Praveen Kumar, superintendent of police (SP), Ranchi, said.

“According to my personal observation, all this has created a furore among the Maoists because they are aware that this initiative would lead to eradication of their local support base,” Praveen added.

Praveen further stated that around 157 youth are being given driving lessons and that they would even make arrangements for issuing driving licence to them.

Police have brought these youth from remote areas, mainly Maoist stronghold areas, to state capital Ranchi where apart from providing training, free food and lodging is also provided to them.

Trainees feel the training is a hope for a better future for all of them, as the unemployment has threatened their survival.

“We are scared but unemployed and do not have any means for survival. Even though we live in Maoist infested belt but it’s better to do something rather than dying empty stomach so that’s the reason why we are here today,” said Sagar Baraik, a youth from a Maoist infested area.

Maoists, who have been running an almost four-decade-long insurgency, control vast tracts of rural land in about a dozen states in east, central and parts of southern India. They say they are fighting for the rights of farmers and the poor. By Girija Shankar Ojha (ANI)

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Manipur has an apparel-manufacturing centre

May 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Imphal, May 29 (ANI): A centre for apparel manufacturing has been set up in Imphal in a first of its kind initiative in the northeastern region. It has come as a boon for educated unemployed youth of the State.

Many Manipuri youngsters have joined Skills for Employment in Apparel Manufacturing (or SEAM) centre.

Set up at Nongmeibung in Imphal East District, SEAM is sponsored by Ministry of Rural Development and Department of Education, Government of Manipur with Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL and FS) Cluster Multi Skills Development Centre.

“Definitely it is going to enhance the local economy. First, by providing local people and dropout students with employment opportunities. Secondly, we are trying to start a production unit in Manipur. Once that comes up, they can start working in Manipur itself,” said Manoj Kumar Sinha, Advisor to the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services centre.

“After they finish their training here, they will go to Bangalore and Chennai for three months to work as an apprentice and will get a stipend of 3,000 rupees. After that they can start working on their own,” said Md. Kodus Khan, the Nodal Officer. he training programme would last for a month and after that, arrangement for placement would be made outside the State and in metro cities.

Apart from weaving classes, the trainees also have classes on personality and language development.

The people of the State have responded enthusiastically and have appreciated the government’s effort.

“This is a very good initiative taken by the government for the employed educated youth of the state. We can now get an opportunity to learn and make a living for ourselves,” said Laishram Reena, a trainee.

“I’ve joined with the hope that after I get this training, I will be able to help my parents. I can work and with the salary I get. I can support my family,” said Giya, a trainee.

Unemployed youth, who have studied till grade eight, are eligible to apply for the training programme, which is free of cost.

Unemployment is one of the biggest problems in the Manipur and schemes like SEAM help address it to some extent. By L.C.K.Singh (ANI)

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CIA interrogation methods are almost illegal, says lawyer

April 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr. 17 (ANI): Most of the interrogative techniques that the Central Intelligence Agency has been approved to use, are considered to be torture under federal law or international treaties, according to a US Justice Department lawyer.

Lawyers in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel felt that the CIA was using almost illegal methods of interrogation.

“The question is substantial and difficult,” Justice Department official Steven Bradbury write in a May 2005 memo.

Bradbury expressed reservations about plans to subject detainees to a combination of the “enhanced” techniques while also being told that interrogators “will do what it takes to get important information.

“The top Justice Department attorney said it was possible a detainee might view that as a threat of severe physical pain, exposure to mind-altering substances, or perhaps even…imminent death,” the Politico quoted him, as saying.

Bradbury went on raising doubts about serial waterboardings method of the interrogation that was not authorized anywhere else.

“Comparisons to the military’s counter-interrogation training involving the simulated drowning technique known as the waterboard not were of limited utility because while the military subjected its trainees to just one such session the CIA was authorized to conduct a series of back-to-back waterboardings under an extremely detailed protocol,” he noted in the memo. (ANI)

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Pak Army unwilling to act against militants, but ill-equipped police seem game

April 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Lahore, Mar.31 (ANI): Analysts in Pakistan and in other parts of the world are divided over how much enthusiasm the Pakistan Army has for tackling militant groups, and there is a consensus emerging that it is the police in the country that has proved to be the most aggressive of the security forces, and therefore needs the most Western backing.

“The police are the weakest link. They are both the most vulnerable and the most essential to the state if there is to be an effective crackdown” on jihadi groups, says Samina Ahmed, a Pakistan-based analyst with the International Crisis Group (ICG).

She takes a dim view of the military’s interest in pursuing these groups, adding that top American officials publicly expressed doubts about it as recently as last week.

Instead, civilian law enforcement is key to beating insurgents in Pakistan because the Army has done little, the Christian Science Monitor quotes Ahmed, as saying.

However, she adds that while the police are game about tackling the menace head on, they have neither the means nor the independence to do so.

Police have told the ICG that since 9/11, the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency has been given most of the power to deal with counter-terrorism.

Even before Monday’s attacks, the police had paid a price for its role in the investigation of the Mumbai attacks. Last week a suicide bomber targeted an Islamabad police station at the center of the investigation. One policeman who thwarted the bomber from entering the building died in the blast.

The two Lahore attacks suggest the police are outgunned and outwitted by an increasingly sophisticated breed of militants. Monday’s attack suggests careful planning, down to the blue uniforms and timing during a parade of unarmed trainees.

The cricket attacks caught police flatfooted, despite official promises there would be top-notch security for the game. Instead, nearby police failed to respond in time to prevent the gunmen from casually getting away, though police on the scene did manage to protect the cricketers.

“It’s a new generation of terrorists – better equipped with better planning and better coordination,” says Pakistani security expert Ayesha Siddiqa. The attack “makes a case for better equipping the police and training them.” (ANI)

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Pranab Mukherjee terms terrorism as biggest threat

April 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Jangipur (West Bengal), Mar 31 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has termed militancy as the biggest threat to world peace.

“We are deeply shocked to learn about the incident at the Police Academy in Lahore. Once again it proves that terrorism is the biggest menace to the world peace and tranquillity.

Unfortunately, the whole region has become the victim of senseless violence of the perpetrators of terrorism. We express our deep condolence to the trainees who lost their lives and also to the security and police personnel who lost their lives in fighting against terrorists,” Mukherjee said on the sidelines of election campaign here on Monday.

The attack came less than a month after a dozen gunmen attacked Sri Lanka’s cricket team in the city, killing six police guards and a bus driver. The gunmen escaped.

The latest brazen attack will heighten fears about mounting insecurity in Pakistan. (ANI)

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Sikkim Government organizes skiing training program to promotes tourism

March 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Yumthang (Sikkim), Mar 11 (ANI): The Sikkim Tourism Department (STD) has organised a 15-days basic course on snow skiing to promote tourism in the state.

The course is also aimed to generate employment opportunities for the local youths.

For the second consecutive year, with the help of Sikkim Tourism Department, the Sikkim Mountaineering Association (SMA) in association with Blue Sky Tours and Travels has organised this 15-day basic course on snow skiing for the educated and unemployed youth in the state.

The course, in which 25 youngsters are undergoing the art of skiing, was commenced on March 3 and it will culminate on March 16.

After the success of the skiing course, the Tourism Department is hopeful of enhancing the tourism potential in several other areas of the state as well.

“If these youngsters properly learn skiing in Sikkim then there is a lot of scope in self employment. Last time when we organised seven to eight day course then we got a very good response from tourist. Even these guys can earn more than rupees 1000 a day. So I hope such course will give boost self-employment,” Officer on Special Duty, Sikkim Tourism Department, Kazi Sherpa said.

The trainees at the camp are on high spirit after the completion of the course.

“We can make our future in tourism by guiding tourists. We can also participate at the national Skiing championship as well,” said Mohan Vishwakarma, a trainee. (ANI)

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‘Hungry’ Prince Harry wolfs down meal for two

January 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment

London, January 30 (ANI): Prince Harry was reportedly so hungry that he shovelled in two meals at a roadside restaurant.

The Royal’s recent split with girlfriend of five years Chelsy Davy was alleged to have little effect on his appetite after he ordered and wiped out a lasagne and a chicken and mushroom pie at Little Chef in Sleaford, Lincs.

The 24-year-old, who is training to pilot the meanest attack machine in the British Army, then moved on to finish a pancake with sugar and lemon and two Cokes while with two other trainees and two bodyguards.

“He must have been hungry. He asked for the main courses to come at the same time,” the Sun quoted Manageress Kim Briggs as saying.

“When Harry was asked if everything was satisfactory, he said, ‘Absolutely amazing.’”

“He seemed like a nice lad, very down to earth,” Kim added. (ANI)

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Prime Minister to inaugurate Indian Naval Academy

January 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Kannur, Jan 8 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the Naval Academy at Ezhimala in Kannur (Cannanore) district of Kerala today.

This Academy will be the premier officer-training establishment of the Indian Navy and will be the largest Naval Academy in Asia.

Commencing June 2009, all officers inducted into the Indian Navy, under various schemes, will undergo basic training at this Academy.

The Academy covers an area of 2452 acres along the North Malabar coastline. It includes part of the Kavvayi backwaters, where watermanship training would be conducted.

The Academy would have state-of-the-art classrooms, laboratories and workshops, a well-stocked library and a modern auditorium.

Physical-fitness training-facilities include indoor swimming and diving pools, an athletics track and stadium, a variety of playfields and courts, a firing range and a watermanship-training centre with several types of boats.

A comprehensive IT network, interconnecting various facilities is also being set-up.

While Naval Orientation Courses are being conducted at Ezhimala since 2005, full-fledged training will commence from June 2009.

The Academy will conduct a four year ”B Tech” programme for all newly inducted trainees. Courses would be offered in ”Electronics and Communications” and ”Mechanical Engineering”.

The syllabus and the curriculum has been drafted keeping in mind the current technical advancements and the skill sets that will be required in handling the future acquisitions of the Indian Navy.

Naval Orientation Courses of 20 weeks duration for other direct entry schemes (after graduation) in various Branches of the navy, will also be conducted here.

The total envisaged strength of the Academy, in June 2009, would be approximately 450 trainees, which would progressively increase to about 1100 trainees by 2013. This would include officer-trainees from the Indian Coast Guard, friendly foreign countries.

The Naval Academy will be manned by a mix of uniformed and civilian personnel for the conduct of training and other administrative support functions.

There would be 161 officers, 47 professors/ lecturers, 502 sailors and 557 civilians. Along with the families of staff, the campus would have a population of about 4000.

A well-designed township would provide living spaces for these personnel.

The Academy would be supported by a Base Depot Ship (INS Zamorin), Base Hospital (INHS Navjeevani) and a Station Health Organisation. (ANI)

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Indian Navy’s largest academy in Asia to be inaugurated by PM on Jan.8

January 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Jan 7 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the largest naval academy in Asia at Ezhimala on January 8.

The Naval Academy at Ezhimala located in Kannur (Cannanore) district of Kerala, will be the premier officer-training establishment of the Indian Navy.

Commencing June 2009, all officers inducted into the Indian Navy, under various schemes, will undergo basic training at this academy.

The academy will have state-of-the-art classrooms, laboratories and workshops, a well-stocked library and a modern auditorium.

Physical-fitness training-facilities include indoor swimming and diving pools, an athletics track and stadium, a variety of playfields and courts, a firing range and a watermanship-training centre with several types of boats. A comprehensive IT network, interconnecting various facilities is also being set-up.

While Naval Orientation Courses are being conducted at Ezhimala since 2005, full-fledged training will commence from June 2009.

The Academy would be conducting a four-year ‘B Tech’ programme for all newly inducted trainees. Courses would be offered in ‘Electronics and Communications’ and ‘Mechanical Engineering’.

Naval Orientation Courses of 20 weeks duration for other Direct Entry schemes (after graduation) in various branches of the Navy will also be conducted.

The total envisaged strength of the academy in June 2009 would be approximately 450 trainees, which would progressively increase to about 1100 trainees by 2013. This would include officer-trainees from the Indian Coast Guard, friendly foreign countries. (ANI)

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