'Not just military operation, but...': NCERT reveals special module on Operation Sindoor for classes 3 to 12 | What's inside?

'Not just military operation, but...': NCERT reveals special module on Operation Sindoor for classes 3 to 12 | What's inside?

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India's education board, NCERT, has revealed a soecial study moduke for students of clssees 3 to 12 on Operation Sindoor. The module highlights Pakistan's involvement in the Pahalgam attack.

India's National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has revealed a special module on Operation Sindoor - which will be taught to children from classes 3-12. The module describes the operation, which India launched on May 7 against nine terror sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), "not just military operation but a promise to protect peace and honour the lives lost.”

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The operation was launched in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 26 Indians were killed in an open firing by terrorists. The module highlights Pakistan's involvement in the terror attack at the tourist place.

“Pakistan denied any involvement in the Pahalgam terror attack but it was directly ordered by its military and political leadership,” reads the NCERT module.

Operation Sindoor ‘still continues’

The Indian Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said on Friday (July 25) that the Operation Sindoor against terrorism "still continues" and the country's military preparedness must remain at a "very high" level throughout the year. While addressing a defence seminar hosted at Subroto Park in New Delhi, Chauhan said that the military in future will also need "information warriors, technology warriors and scholar warriors."

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"In a merging landscape of warfare, a future soldier will need to be a mix of all three: info, tech and scholar warriors," the CDS said, news agency PTI reported.

The seminar, which was on 'Aerospace Power: Preserving India's Sovereignty and Furthering National Interests', was held under the aegis of the 'No.4 Warfare and Aerospace Strategy Programme' in the national capital.

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