In our country, for a government employee training is considered a punishment… An impression has been created that any useless official would be assigned the work of training, he said. The Cabinet approved Mission Karmyogi as the government wanted to give a lot of importance to training activity. There is a need to take it forward, he said. Dubbed as the biggest bureaucratic reform initiative, the scheme was aimed at capacity building to make government employees more creative, proactive, professional and technology-enabled. The Prime Minister said the humane side of the police force in the country came to fore during the coronavirus pandemic and the security personnel did a commendable job. During coronavirus times, Police used to sing songs to create awareness, used to feed the poor and take patients. These scenes were witnessed by people… During the coronavirus, humanity worked through Khaki uniform, he said. He also counselled the new officers—not to be influenced by films like Singham that portrayed super cops, saying some police personnel want to first show-off but miss out on main aspects of policing. Some policemen who join new duty want to first show-off … scare people… And anti-social elements should shiver from hearing my name itself…. after watching films like Singham, it gets over their mind and because of it those works which need to be done get missed out, Modi noted. Replying to one of the cadets from Tamil Nadu on managing stress among police personnel, Modi said farmers also face stress if there was unwanted variation in rainfall. He also noted that yoga and pranayama were great ways to beat the stress. Police stations should be kept clean and neat and also made centres of social trust, Modi said. Asking police personnel to always respect the power of society, he said officers should leverage the inherent strength of the society for achieving citizen friendly objectives. As many as 131 probationers, including 28 women, of the Indian Police Service of 2018 batch successfully completed their training in the academy. Kiran Shruti D V, the best all-round probationer of the batch, led the parade. PTI