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Amid an accrued absorption connected violent enactment successful the Chenab Valley successful Jammu, the Army connected Wednesday (December 31, 2025) provided step-by-step grooming to section civilians who person volunteered to enactment arsenic Village Defence Guards (VDGs) to antagonistic imaginable panic attacks.
Officials said 17 distant villages located successful the hilly Bhalessa country of Doda district, astatine an altitude of astir 7,705 feet, are being covered nether the grooming programme. The villagers are being trained successful the usage of high-calibre and self-loading rifles. Scores of men and women person enrolled arsenic VDGs successful the district.
“Earlier, the question of terrorists would instil fearfulness successful us. The ongoing grooming programmes by the Army this period successful operating rifles volition spell a agelong mode successful dissipating fearfulness and enabling america to instrumentality connected these terrorists,” a nonmigratory of Bhalessa said.
Over the past week, the Army has trained astir 150 section villagers, including women, successful handling automatic rifles. Officials said the VDGs were besides imparted basal grooming successful self-defence and successful taking positions wrong bunkers. They were additionally trained successful wood and upland combat techniques.
The latest circular of grooming comes amid accrued inputs astir violent question successful the Chenab Valley, comprising Doda, Ramban and Kishtwar districts. Officials said areas of Doda adjacent to the Chamba territory of Himachal Pradesh were besides being covered.
“Significant steps were taken this twelvemonth to guarantee that nary terrorist-initiated incidents occurred successful Doda. Operating bases were established astatine assorted locations connected upland peaks and rugged terrain, wherever our unit person been deployed continuously for the past 8 months, enduring harsh wintertime conditions,” Senior Superintendent of Police Sandeep Mehta said.
Meanwhile, an anti-terror cognition remains underway successful adjoining Udhampur district, wherever a constable was killed connected December 15 during an brushwood with terrorists.
“Security forces person launched a manhunt to destruct Pakistani terrorists hiding successful the region. The associated cognition of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the Army, and the CRPF has been underway for the past 15 days,” Udhampur Senior Superintendent of Police Amod Ashok Nagpure said.
