KUALA LUMPUR: National Service Training Programme (PLKN) recruits are expected to increase to around 100,000 a year with the addition of higher education institutions (IPT) being used for training.
Defence Ministry Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said at a press conference at a housing project key handover ceremony on Monday (Jan 19) that the target was to have around 25,000 recruits at camps and the remaining 75,000 at various IPTs.
"For the IPT they will start this year, especially at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris and at other polytechnics involving 6,000 recruits.
"So this year the total is around 10,000 but next year it will increase to around 100,000. So we are looking at a minimum of 100,000 recruits with around 25,000 being trained at the territorial army camps," he said.
