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Gurgaon to get ISA training centre

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, FEB.3. What is said to be an extension of the Internal Security Academy (ISA), situated at Mount Abu in Rajasthan, is coming up in Gurgaon in a few months' time to train the directly appointed gazetted officers (DAGOs), also referred to as Assistant Commandants, of the Central Reserve Police Force.

The next batch of 271 DAGOs, who have been recruited by the Union Public Service Commission, will undergo 55 weeks' training at the Gurgaon centre which is at Kaderpur. One batch of directly appointed 69 officers is undergoing training in Mount Abu at present.

It is not yet clear whether establishing an extension of ISA in Gurgaon is the beginning of the move to shift the Academy out of Mount Abu. CRPF had established ISA in 1975 to train DAGOs when the National Police Academy was shifted to Hyderabad from Mount Abu. Prior to the establishment of ISA at Mount Abu, CRPF officers were trained at Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh.

Since 1975 ISA has trained 21 batches of 1,346 direct appointees in this only hill station in Rajasthan. Besides this, 3,033 other officers from the State police, the Central police organisations and the Indian Civil Service have undergone training in internal security matters at the Academy.

During its existence for over a quarter of a century the academy has gained recognition as a "Centre of Excellence'' in internal security matters.

The Director of the Internal Security Academy, D.N.S. Bisht, who addressed the personnel at ISA on the occasion of the 30th Rising Day on Tuesday, talked about the starting of the extension centre but he did not mention anything about its moving out.

Sources at ISA told this correspondent that there was a possibility of the Academy finally moving out of Mount Abu to Gurgaon though it would not happen for the next couple of years. The decision to train the newly recruited DAGOs at Kaderpur was influenced by the lack of adequate facilities to accommodate so many of them.

"It is for the first time that UPSC has recruited DAGOs in such large numbers. Earlier it used to be 80-100 in every batch,'' a senior official at ISA pointed out.

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