in-charge of training of various states to design a common training syllabus. The Core Group set up for this purpose prepared a training syllabus for the para-military forces which was approved by the Gommission and was then circulated to the Heads of the Pararnilltary Forces on 24 September 1998 for implementation. Six out of the seven Central Police organizations reported that they have included this training syllabus on h m a n rights in their curriculum. 13.15 As a part of the effort of the Commission to spread an awareness of human rights amongst the para-militaryforces, the tradition was maintained of holding a national-level debate competition on human rights. This year, it was organised at CRPF Headquarters in New Delhi on 24 March 1999, the subject being "Is the duty of Paramilitary Forces restricted to the observance of Human Rights or does it extend to the protection of Human Rights of others?" Twenty-two participants from the Border Security Force, National Security Guards, Railway Protection Force, Central Industrial Security Force, Assam Rifles and Central Reserve Police Force took part in the debate. The team trophy was won by the ClSF. (E) INTERNSHIP SCHEME 13.16 The management consultants, MIS Mckinsey & Co., in a study undertaken for the Commission, had, inter alia, recommended that the Commission should evolve a system of internships to expose talented students, both from lndia and abroad, to the work of the Commission. It was suggested that these interns could be pursuing graduate or post-graduate studies in law, political science, sociology or criminology. 13.17 The Commission accepted this recommendation and the Chairperson issued Practice Direction No.1 t as a guideline for "The summer internship programme" (Annexure VII). The first Summer Internship Programme was thus held for university students from 16 June 1998 to 15 July 1998. Seven students from the Law Faculty of Delhi University and Jamia Milia Islamia University were selected for participation in the programme. The interns were paid a stipend of Rs.2,000/per month. They were attached to the different divisions of the Commission and also were familiarized with important cases considered by the Commission. t 3.18 The Commission has also been giving placement, from time to time, to students from various universities on consideration of the applications from the students/universities. In this regard, students from the Tata institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and the National Law School of lndia University, Bangalore were also given placement during the year 1998-99. 13.1 9 The Commission accepted an offer of the Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen to make the services of a Human Rights Officer available to the Commission to work on a research project on The Conditions of Juvenile Homes and other lnstitutionsiHomes set up under different Statutes". The project was to study the administration and conditions of the