J&K Village Defence Groups

March 3, 2022

Residents from the villages of Jammu and Kashmir will be enrolled for local defence before the delimitation process of Union Territory starts. The government has approved the village defence groups’ (VDG) formation.

Overview:

VDGs will be created so that they can respond to threats in areas where the local police presence is thin.
Each VDG will consist of 8 to 10 members of the same rank and pay, which the government will credit to their accounts every month.
The present system of assigning 1 or 2 special police officers with VDGs will be discontinued.
The VDGs will also operate in parts of Kashmir valley.

Is VDG a new concept or were there VDGs operating earlier in Jammu and Kashmir?

The VDGs have been around for a while in Jammu and Kashmir, but the members quit after they were not paid for a long time.

With the help of intelligence inputs from the VDGs, the security forces have been able to eliminate a large number of terrorists. When violence and terrorism were at an all-time high in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1990s, the VDGs helped people in remote locations and protected them from terrorist attacks.

With the help of VDGs, the armed forces will be looking to eliminate all the terrorist activities that happens in that region.

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