From Conflict to Careers: How an Imphal Organisation Is Giving Manipur’s Youth a New Beginning
How an Imphal Organisation Is Transforming Manipur’s Unemployed Youth into Trained Security Professionals (Image Nirendra Dev)
By NIRENDRA DEV
Homeland Security has trained and placed more than 700 youths from conflict-hit Manipur, offering employment, discipline and dignity through professional security training.
Imphal, August 3, 2026 —Homeland Security is an Imphal-based private organisation working in coordination with multiple private and government institutions, including the Assam Rifles, to create employment opportunities for the youth of Manipur.
Its graduates have secured jobs in several organisations outside the state, including hotels and private establishments in Chennai and other cities.
“We have a wider mission of transforming unemployed youth of Manipur into trained, disciplined and employment-ready security professionals,” says the company’s director, Rajkumar Babloo Singh.
In the course of journalistic adventures—and misadventures—we keep meeting individuals. I found Babloo to be a dreamer, somewhat “mad” in the most positive sense. The kind of passionate moments he spoke about are those I too experience in life. I felt we shared a similar mental wavelength.
Babloo had other ideas.
“Let us share good coffee. Come tomorrow to our office,” he said.
Always searching for good stories—and often from good, simple people in violence-hit Manipur, rather than netas, underground groups or even patriotic security personnel—I visited his campus.
Some of his staff, including young women, were inside a classroom.
One of them stepped out and said: “Our organisation works to create dignified livelihood opportunities for young people from Manipur, including those from economically weaker and vulnerable sections of society.”
It sounded like a well-rehearsed sentence.
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Every visitor is told that Homeland Security believes professional security services are not limited to protecting institutions and individuals.
The sector, it says, can also become a meaningful platform for youth development, character building, employment generation and social transformation.
In this context, I was told that the recent visit of Deepender Singh Hooda inspired the Homeland Security team and the young professionals associated with the organisation.
“His journey, recognised for discipline, commitment and excellence, reflects many of the values that Homeland Security seeks to develop among its trainees and personnel. The organisation remains committed to building a generation of responsible and professionally trained security personnel who can contribute positively to their families, workplaces and society,” Babloo said.
Earlier this month, in a boost to employment generation in conflict-hit Manipur, 65 young men and women, including one Internally Displaced Person (IDP) and several youths from remote hill districts such as Kamjong, received appointment letters after completing a professional security training programme conducted by Homeland Security.
The eighth batch certificate and appointment letter distribution ceremony was held at North AOC, Sanjeevani Complex, Imphal, under the Homeland Academy of Tactical Security and Fire Safety, an initiative of the Inspector General Assam Rifles (South).
With the latest batch, Homeland Security has now trained and placed more than 700 youths from Manipur, marking a significant milestone in its employment-linked skill development initiative.
Like many other northeastern states, Manipur has no shortage of hardworking young people.
Many are willing to work, learn and improve.
What is often missing is a structured pathway that connects them with training, confidence and employment.
Homeland Security’s model offers a practical response.
It provides unemployed youth with a disciplined environment where they can prepare for professional life.
Through routine, training and placement, it helps them move from hesitation to confidence, from uncertainty to income and, perhaps most importantly, to self-respect.
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