Over 130 youth abandon ‘radicalism’ in favor of Indian Army’s ‘Sahi Rasta’

According to reports, the Sahi Rasta initiative is a programme for skill and personality development. Following enrolment, the trainees receive life lessons. They converse with professionals from the security, industrial, and police sectors. They are also instructed on Kashmir’s culture and history. Officials in the Indian Army claim that the effort is winning the support of the community. They are grateful for it. There are clear evidence that the participants are becoming less radicalised.

Security services are now concentrating on eradicating the core causes of radicalization as part of a revised strategy to combat terrorism in the valley. Senior officials were cited in the paper as saying that their objective had previously been to kill terrorists, but that they are now focusing on these young people who are frequently radicalised by terrorist organisations. According to the Indian Army, some of the initiative’s members have begun to attend Agnipath recruitment drives.