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Army bids to make soldiers stress-free
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We are enjoying it very much. We are provided with all kinds of facilities. It really makes you feel good.
- Subedar Tomar Singh
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If you thought only high flying executives get stress-busting sessions organised by their companies, think again.
Now even the Indian army has caught on to this concept.
Soldiers are in Dalhousie, the quaint little hill station in western Himachal Pradesh, as part of an innovative army programme designed to give those deployed in counter-insurgency operations a holiday they will remember.
Family time
Subedar Ravinder Singh has served in the army for 28 years rising through the ranks, but does not remember ever having taken a holiday with his wife and children.
Now, he is enjoying the break he's never had.
''We relax for six or seven days. Otherwise there is a lot of work,'' he says.
Ravinder is not alone. Subedar Tomar Singh has never been so relaxed in his 13 years of service.
Married for six years, the couple have spent only three years together and they have never been on vacation.
''For the first time, the army has given us this facility. Now we feel that the army is doing something for us. Tension and stress are a part of army life, so even one month would not be enough.
''We are enjoying it very much. We are provided with all kinds of facilities. It really makes you feel good,'' adds Subedar Singh.
Started in 2004 as an experiment to give the over-worked and stressed out soldier a break from his monotonous routine, the programme has picked up over the past two years.
Fun & games
More than 25,000 people have enjoyed the all-expenses paid holiday so far.
Most soldiers who come here are deployed under 16 Corps, the world's largest counter-insurgency force.
''Here, we have facilities like tambola, music rooms, library for the jawans and their families. We take them on picnics to nearby scenic spots. Even otherwise, they can just relax. Everything is on-the-house,'' says Capt Mayank Nanda, camp in-charge.
About 8,000 soldiers and their families come here every year - a small number considering that at any point, over three lakh armymen are deployed in Kashmir.
However, it is better than nothing.
Quote
We are enjoying it very much. We are provided with all kinds of facilities. It really makes you feel good.
- Subedar Tomar Singh
Rate the Story
SMS NDTV
For latest headlines SMS NEWS to 6388 (in India & UAE), to 63880(in UK)
Also Read
Sensationalism is sacrilege in journalism: Kalam
Book rekindles Nehru-Edwina controversy
Haneef's family on the edge
Monica acquitted in passport forgery case
Nitin Gokhale
Monday, July 16, 2007 (Dalhousie)
If you thought only high flying executives get stress-busting sessions organised by their companies, think again.
Now even the Indian army has caught on to this concept.
Soldiers are in Dalhousie, the quaint little hill station in western Himachal Pradesh, as part of an innovative army programme designed to give those deployed in counter-insurgency operations a holiday they will remember.
Family time
Subedar Ravinder Singh has served in the army for 28 years rising through the ranks, but does not remember ever having taken a holiday with his wife and children.
Now, he is enjoying the break he's never had.
''We relax for six or seven days. Otherwise there is a lot of work,'' he says.
Ravinder is not alone. Subedar Tomar Singh has never been so relaxed in his 13 years of service.
Married for six years, the couple have spent only three years together and they have never been on vacation.
''For the first time, the army has given us this facility. Now we feel that the army is doing something for us. Tension and stress are a part of army life, so even one month would not be enough.
''We are enjoying it very much. We are provided with all kinds of facilities. It really makes you feel good,'' adds Subedar Singh.
Started in 2004 as an experiment to give the over-worked and stressed out soldier a break from his monotonous routine, the programme has picked up over the past two years.
Fun & games
More than 25,000 people have enjoyed the all-expenses paid holiday so far.
Most soldiers who come here are deployed under 16 Corps, the world's largest counter-insurgency force.
''Here, we have facilities like tambola, music rooms, library for the jawans and their families. We take them on picnics to nearby scenic spots. Even otherwise, they can just relax. Everything is on-the-house,'' says Capt Mayank Nanda, camp in-charge.
About 8,000 soldiers and their families come here every year - a small number considering that at any point, over three lakh armymen are deployed in Kashmir.
However, it is better than nothing.
