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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Security sensitization

These include prohibiting two-wheeler drivers from covering their faces in any manner, including wearing face masks and scarves - a part of normal attire in Pune since the outbreak of Swine-flu in May last year.
A security sensitization programme has been undertaken in 103 educational institutions covering over 40,000 students in the past three days.
Combing operations are continuing in different parts of the city 'or wherever there is suspicion,' Singh said.

Source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100221/812/tnl-kolkata-youth-succumbs-pune-blast-to.html

Could you please explain to me what "sensitization" means here?
  

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It's a little unusual in my opinion. I believe it would be a program to heighten the awareness of a given population, of a given subject. That is, to make them more sensitive about the issues surrounding a certain subject.

  • It's a little unusual in my opinion.
  • I believe it would be a program to heighten the awareness of a given population, of a given subject.
  • That is, to make them more sensitive about the issues surrounding a certain subject.
  • A "security sensitization programe" would seek to make people more aware of the problems which new security issues have created, so that their responses in a given situation would "automatically" take these factors into account.
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It's a little unusual in my opinion.

I believe it would be a program to heighten the awareness of a given population, of a given subject. That is, to make them more sensitive about the issues surrounding a certain subject.

A "security sensitization programe" would seek to make people more aware of the problems which new security issues have created, so that their responses in a

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