| Khrew (pulwama) |
October 14, 2020 2:01:52 am
The Army battle school that trains all soldiers and officers moving to Kashmir Valley has introduced a psychological module to its basic training to make them “more sensitive towards civilians”.
The Corps Battle School (CBS), in Khrew village of J&K's Pulwama district, comes under XV Corps and is responsible for all counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations in the hinterland, and all activities along the Line of Control. It trains every soldier and officers up to the ranks of Colonel before they join their units.
The training is mandatory even for soldiers returning to the Valley after a gap of over six months.
Sources said the module was designed by the Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR). A team from DIPR, sources at CBS said, visited the school last year and later built a module.
However, not all soldiers who pass through CBS every month go through this module. A “selected lot of 200 to 250 soldiers and officers from the total trainees go through the psychological capsule,” a senior officer at CBS said.
“We have developed a capsule to make soldiers more sensitive towards a…