Maintain Fitness, discipline, speaker to new firefighters

Speaker Dr Pramod Sawant has exhorted the newly passed out firefighters to keep themselves physically fit and maintain discipline so that they can discharge their duties to the best of their capacity.

Pramod was addressing the 70 firefighters who passed out after a six-month training on Friday.

The passing out parade was organized at the premises of the Directorate of Fire and Emergency Services.

The 59^th and 60^th batches that included 16 trainees from Arunachal Pradesh and 33 trainees from Daman and Diu passed out. 

Pramod inspected the parade accompanied by Director of Fire and Emergency Services Ashok Menon.

The Director of Fire and Emergency Services informed media that the Fire training centre has trained 34,000 firefighters.

He said the trainees came from state and union territory governments and also from petrochemical and hospitality sectors.