The Indian Army is conducting training for approximately 150 Village Defence Guards (VDGs), including women, from 17 remote villages in Doda district, Jammu and Kashmir. The initiative aims to enhance grassroots security and community resilience in the Chenab valley region, which has faced past terrorist infiltrations. Volunteers are learning to handle automatic rifles, self-defence tactics, and bunker construction. This training complements ongoing counter-terrorism operations by security forces in the higher reaches of the valley.