The recent suspension of the National Service Training Programme or PLKN appears to have been taken as a blessing in diguise by the National Service Training Council; they plan to use the period to improve its training module and infrastructure.
A laboratory will be set up to dissect the current modules, its chairman Datuk Noor Ehsanuddin Mohd Harun Narrashid told Bernama, adding that the end result would be a ‘high quality and balanced generation’ of PLKN trainees.
The three-month training programme — which began in 2003 and has drawn scrutiny for the number of trainee deaths since then— was suspended last month after Prime Minister Najib Razak announced cost cutting measures.
“We will use this one year to review the module and repair the training camps damaged by the floods, especially those in Kelantan. A laboratory will be created to conduct a study on the upgrading of the training module. We will involve the trainers and parents,” Noor Ehsanuddin.
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