TRAINING FOR FIREFIGHTERS

• Refers to capacity building of fire service personnel under the centrally-supported "Scheme for Expansion and Modernisation of Fire Services in the States", launched 04 July 2023 by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
• Funded out of the ₹5,000 crore corpus carved from the Preparedness and Capacity Building window of the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF), recommended by the 15th Finance Commission.
• Apex training institutions: National Fire Service College (NFSC), Nagpur (under MHA), the country's premier firefighting training body.
• Relevant for Disaster Management (GS-III) and Cooperative Federalism (GS-II); fire services are a State subject under the Seventh Schedule, so a centrally-aided scheme is constitutionally noteworthy.