{"id":227795,"date":"2023-02-21T19:32:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=227795"},"modified":"2023-02-21T19:32:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T14:02:49","slug":"reducing-army-presence-in-jk-hinterland-a-thaw-in-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reducing-army-presence-in-jk-hinterland-a-thaw-in-the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Army presence in J&K hinterland: A thaw in the Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cReducing Army presence in J&K hinterland: A thaw in the Valley\u201d <\/strong>published in Business Standard <\/b>on 21s<\/strong>t February 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 3 \u2013 Security challenges and their management in border areas.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About withdrawing soldiers from J&K.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Discussion has begun on reducing the presence of Army troops in civilian areas in the hinterland of Jammu and Kashmir.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the reasons for withdrawing soldiers from J&K?<\/h2>\n

Excluding paramilitaries, the number of Army soldiers in J&K is said to be in the region of 1.7 lahks. This includes the soldiers posted along the 740-km Line of Control with Pakistan.<\/p>\n

The reason for withdrawing soldiers are a)<\/strong> a big reduction in the number of terrorist incidents, b)<\/strong> stationing soldiers indefinitely to keep a check on civilians is not good for the Army or for the people and c)<\/strong> the February 2021 recommitment by the Indian and Pakistan armies to the LoC ceasefire.<\/p>\n

It has been proposed that the CRPF can fill in for the Army.<\/p>\n

What are the benefits of withdrawing soldiers from J&K?<\/h2>\n

In the year of India’s G20 presidency, a)<\/strong> The move could help India to counter international description of Kashmir as the \u201cworld\u2019s most militarised region\u201d, b)<\/strong> India can focus on the Line of Actual Control. Earlier, Rashtriya Rifles, a force raised by the Army specially for counter-insurgency duties in Kashmir was deployed in LAC.<\/p>\n

What should be done along with withdrawing soldiers from J&K?<\/h2>\n

The security situation in J&K is far from resolved. A good start for troop thinning would be in areas with low violence levels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The J&K police must put in place a regular crime control mechanism<\/strong> with an emphasis on investigations, which may have a salutary effect against terrorist activity.<\/p>\n

The ultimate goal in J&K is political empowerment<\/strong>, and for this, the government must make plans to hold assembly elections<\/strong> at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cReducing Army presence in J&K hinterland: A thaw in the Valley\u201d published in Business Standard on 21st February 2023. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Security challenges and their management in border areas. Relevance: About withdrawing soldiers from J&K. News: Discussion has begun on reducing the presence of Army troops… Continue reading Reducing Army presence in J&K hinterland: A thaw in the Valley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-227795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703828614},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}