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SRINAGAR, NOV 3
The army will adopt a "pro-active approach" to address the issue of fratricidal killings in the force, its chief Gen J J Singh said today.
"I think we need to take a pro-active approach to assess, analyse and address them. We hope to overcome such challenges," Singh told reporters on the sidelines of a function here in response to a question on the issue.
Seven fatricidal killings in a period of just 30 days prompted Singh to recently instruct his top commanders to probe such incidents and come up with corrective measures.
Army officials said measures like counselling were being institutionalised in all training institutions, and rest and recuperation centres were being set up to help reduce stress levels among troops.
Replying to another query about the growing incidents of suicide in the armed forces, Singh said five cases in the 1.3 million-strong army did not "reflect that things are wrong".
"The army is going into the causes of every case and necessary corrections will be done," he said, adding the force had chalked out "short and long-term measures to check such incidents".
"The measures include training to junior leaders on how the best of relations with jawans can be maintained and to reduce the gap between seniors and juniors."
Earlier cases of suicides were "the fault of the leadership at the sub-station level, personal problems of the jawans and a certain amount of pressure of operational duties", Singh said.
Some 100 suicides were reported during the past four to five years in insurgency-hit states. "This year too, the number was almost same," he said adding the army was trained to cope with this challenges.
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