<span style="color: #222222;">Home Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday launched the Student Police Cadet (SPC) programme for nationwide implementation at a ceremony in Gurugram, Haryana. On the occasion, Mr Singh expressed hope that the SPC would lead to a silent revolution over the years by focusing on character building by imparting moral values to budding minds. He expressed concern that education these days stressed more on mere book reading with little attention being paid towards character building of students, which shows negative effects on society in terms of increased crime.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Mr Singh said, the SPC programme would help in making students responsible citizens by inculcating values of respect to the elderly, discipline, social responsibility and through police-student interaction. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Speaking on the occasion, Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said, it is a very good initiative which will be launched initially in Government schools and later expanded to cover all schools. He said, talent alone is not sufficient for success. Mr Javadekar said students, need discipline and hard work which will be imparted through SPC. He said SPC will cover around 4 crore students.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The programme focuses on students of Classes 8 and 9 and special care has been taken to ensure that it does not lead to increase in the workload of the students. It does not have any prescribed textbook nor is any exam envisaged. Only one class in a month is proposed. The programme seeks to cover broadly two kinds of topics – crime prevention and control and values and ethics.</span><br />