Tuesday, 17 October 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
A pistol training and firing practice session was conducted for the first time for women home guard volunteers in the State from October 4 to 15 at the Central Training Institute in Dehradun’s Thano. The additional chief secretary Radha Raturi on Monday distributed training certificates to 40 women home guard volunteers at the Home Guard Headquarters. She also inaugurated the newly built Unarmed Combat Training building which is a multipurpose hall where a total of 29 male and female Home Guard volunteers are getting training in unarmed combat.
These volunteers also demonstrated their unarmed combat skills to Raturi who praised them. She also unveiled the departmental coffee table book called Reflections at the event. Addressing the officials, she said that the book beautifully showcases the department’s events since its inception in the State through pictures. She also praised the department’s work like the establishment of the Maska Baja Band, setting up help desks, training sessions for personnel and creating an initiative app for mental health.
The commandant general of the Home Guard department Kewal Khurana also said on the occasion that the department is continuously moving ahead on the path of progress and has been contributing in strengthening traffic and maintaining law and order with the police. He said that for the first time in the State, the Home Guard Help Desk has been established in tourist places and pilgrimages to help the elderly, helpless and specially-abled people. He said that in order to make home guard volunteers technically proficient and empowered, 335 male and female personnel of Dehradun, Haridwar, Tehri, Uttarkashi, Pauri, Chamoli, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts are being given training of firing sessions for the first time in the State. So far, 50 male home guard volunteers and 40 female home guard volunteers have received training with pistols of nine millimetres, said Khurana.
