NEW DELHI: Delhi Police commissioner Rakesh Asthana launched an e-learning platform for youths from unprivileged backgrounds on Sunday.
The platform, called Unnati, will help the youth enrol in courses of their choice, get trained through live, online classes. The cops will also provide counselling, training and placement.
The police chief said that over 1.5 lakh people were arrested by Delhi Police for various crimes every year, and more than 85% of them were first-timers. “Unnati aims to target that these 85% who do not fall in the web of crime and they get a chance to take a fresh shot at life,” he added.
The top cop unveiled the South West district's initiative under the police’s flagship scheme, Yuva, to help school dropouts and youths from weaker sections of the society get education, skills and realise their dreams of secure future. “Anyone can learn from anywhere through a laptop, desktop, tablet or simply a mobile phone. It provides side-by-side placement to trainees,” the top cop said.
The portal, Asthana added, made available the recordings of the session so that once it was over, any trainee who missed the live class could go through it again. On the successful completion of the e-Learning course, a certificate is awarded, which helps the holder in getting placement. The commissioner also felicitated seven Yuva trainees who had jobs and supported their family’s livelihoods. Asthana said that he was moved by their stories. One of those felicitated was a young girl named Megha who was looking for a job after completing Class XII to support her family. She enrolled for four months of training in computers under Yuva and got placed as an executive in a human resource firm. “Rahat Ali lost his father due to Covid and pursued a mobile phone repairing course through Yuva. He initially worked in a mobile repair shop at Karol Bagh and now runs his own shop,” PRO Chinmoy Biswal said.
