Over 10,000 Volunteers To Be Trained To Ensure Safety And Security During The Common Wealth Games 2010

To ensure safety and security during the Commonwealth Games 2010, the Center is finalising a blueprint to impart special training to more than 10,000 volunteers. The training will involve fire-fighting exercise, manning control

rooms, handling wireless equipment, frisking and rescue operation in the stadiums and the Games Village.

Besides supplementing the law and order machinery, these volunteers would also be trained to guide and usher in participants, officials and visitors at different venues and the Games Village. "We are preparing a training module taking every aspect of the forthcoming Games in mind as part of disaster management," a senior official of the Directorate General of Home Guards and Civil Defence said.

The training programme also involves imparting medical aid. The official said that though maintaining law and order will be Delhi Police's responsibility, these volunteers will be there to assist them. Besides safety and security, a behaviour-training programme for them is also being planned. "They would be trained to speak English and ways of dealing with participants and visitors during the Games. However, the behaviour training would be handled by a different agency," he said.

There will be a massive requirement of volunteers during the Games in various stadiums and the Games Village, according to the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games. The Home Guards and Civil Defence department has undertaken a massive exercise to revamp their infrastructure to meet the challenges during the biggest sporting event of the country in 2010. "We have introduced virtual classroom concept to train our volunteers at different places from the headquarters," the official said.

There will be requirement of trained manpower across the Capital in October 2010. "Since every stadium and parking lot will have a control room to monitor the situation as part of the security measure, trained volunteers will be required to assist security personnel at control rooms," said the official. According to an estimate, there would be about 3,000 vehicles pressed into service for athletes, officials and media. "Volunteers would also be trained as part of traffic management to handle these vehicles at premises and parking lots," said the official.