The Youth foundation selected 115 candidates for its second batch of army training camp held at Panagarh in Pithoragarh on Thursday. The selected youths would be provided free training by the foundation at its camp where free boarding and lodging facility would be given to them.
On Thursday, 825 youths participated in the camp. The selected youths would be trained for a period of three months starting from July 01. The aim of the Pithoragarh camp is to train youths for the army recruitment rally slated to held between October 20- 23 at Banbasa for candidates of Kumaon region.
The co-ordinator of the Youth Foundation, Suraj Singh Negi said that the foundation is organizing regular camps at Dehradun, Srinagar, Nag Nath Pokhri, Agastyamuni and Pithoragargh from June 2013. “The response of these camps is very good. Till date more than 3,000 candidates who have attended the camp have been selected in army. The foundation also organised training camps for recruitment in paramilitary forces and Police,’’ he said.
The foundation takes services of the retired army personnel in training these candidates while the trained teachers are deployed in the camp who prepare the candidates in clearing the written examination part.
The foundation would hold similar selection camps at Nag Nath Pokhri on June 19, at Agastyamuni June 21, Srinagar on June 23, Uttarkashi on June 25 and Dehradun on June 27. Negi informed that youth aged between 17 to 21 can take part in the selection process.