Emergencies often come without warning,
When disasters strike, when your city is under siege,
when everyone around you is helpless.
What would you do?
It’s an experiment that has never been done before…
There are 6 highly trained military professionals from the special forces
and 12 young Indian civilians.
Do they have the passion to complete military training?
Do they have the capacity to become first responders when disaster strikes?
The motto of India's citizen squad is to increase the courage and dedication among people
We are training these young boys and girls to be first responders.
When emergency strikes they must have the confidence
to take quick action and save others.
Can they become the India's citizen squad?
The rocky mountains of Kashmir are high and insurmountable.
and that’s exactly what the next challenge is all about.
We were taken to another new location where there
were huge mountains and rocks.
You heard about the Kargil war?
Yes Sir!
And you know that we had some major victories there?
Yes Sir!
So one of the major reasons for the victory of these battles
was that we had surprised the enemy.
We took a route that the enemy did not expect us to take.
Understood?
Do you see the mountains there, the highest ones with the snow?
Such were the kind of mountains where Kargil was fought,
those were the kind of peaks which were climbed and
the enemy was attacked from behind.
Now to achieve that kind of expertise you are going to
require years of training but that’s not my aim here.
My aim here is to give you an introduction to mountaineering.
Some of the skills that we were teaching them were not
only for the purpose of basic training
but more of training to build their minds.
In general, whenever people see a cliff they would think
why should I climb this or why would I scale this.
I want India's Citizen Squad to look at the cliff anytime
and say how would I scale this.
When I reached the rock climbing site,
I didn't want to give up because I don't give into failure so quickly.
but I had understood that this was going to be quite difficult for me.
When my turn came I was obviously like really scared.
Shift Upwards, Shift the leg upwards
I was not scared of rock climbing as much as I was scared
of the thought that I won’t be able to do it
First relax, breathe breathe
At one point, my hand was slipping repeatedly and I couldn’t pull myself up.
Ok down down
I just said sorry to my team mates, for not completing the task but
they supported me and said we thought you wouldn't even attempt it.
but you were on it, and kept going it and when you
thought you won't be able to do it still you kept going.
still you did not lose courage and kept trying
it's like amazing
I haven’t done mountain climbing ever before, it was my first time…
and it was a pretty good experience.
I always wanted to do this and right now I got the chance
So I tried to perform well.
The basics of rock craft are finally over,
now it’s time for the relay race.
Ok are we ready?
Yes Sir!
Okay Rishabh come here.
When Col. Sarin asked who all wants to become Captain
So I put my hand up and I guess so did Sonu.
From my team, I was made the team leader
and from the opposite team Rishabh was made the team leader.
I thought this is the wrong round to participate with Sonu,
it was not that we were confident which team will win
but I had a feeling that Sonu's team will have an advantage.
So let me just explain the rules again
The rules for the rock race are very simple.
Every climber has to reach top and strike gong 1 and 2
each team gets four turns which will be timed,
the team leader will decide if he sends four separate climbers
or just his team's best climbers to take the turns.
What’s the plan?
Sir basically I will select sunny and Sunil.
When the round started my strategy was that I will send
Sunil and Sunny in rotation.
First Sunil then Sunny then again Sunil and then Sunny
because we had only four attempts I think.
So I thought they will be the best ones to do this task.
Start!
Keep it up!
leave the rope loose
It was very necessary that our partner who was
supporting to loosen the rope, his timing should be right
to leave the rope loose, then only we will be able to get down with speed.
And after me it was Sunny's turn and he climbed faster than me.
slowly, slowly, no hurry
In the first round Sunil took a little time but
as he started the next round he nicely covered up for it
and completed the second task in only 32 seconds.
So that made us feel now we can win.
After that Sunny also didn't take much time.
Climber 3, 2 gongs, 32.66 seconds
In total we made 4 points but with 3 or 4 minutes…
so yeah we completed the task nicely.
Ok well done team red
Blue team your turn
Thank You Sir!
It was my teams decisions to send me for maximum
number of times as they had seen me climb before and
it would be better for the team to win.
Start!
I climbed up in time but the relay did not loosen up.
When we had to get down the relay got stuck
somewhere which took a little bit more time.
Start!
I also took the second attempt, this time the relay was fine
and I climbed also well so our time got reduced.
Sonu was in their team who is a professional mountaineer.
In the first attempt he took a little more time
so we thought we had a chance to win but when he
completed his second round he took only 32 seconds.
Start!
Our team’s strategy was that I will take the maximum attempts
and in case I get tired Nilay will take one attempt.
We thought Nilay will take the next attempt but Sonu came again.
After that we knew who would win
we were even calculating the time that the climbers were taking.
I performed well and had the best timing in the fourth and the last round.
Slowly! Loose loose loose loose, Slowly!
Slowly!
Beautiful!
Well Done! Ok
Manav which team do you think has won?
Sir, the blue team won
Are you sure?
Yes Sir!
Beautiful
The blue team is the clear winner and
will get an advantage in the final mission
Both of you very well done.
Thank You Sir!
Both the technique as well as timing was good,
now go down and you will get further instructions
Yes Sir!
Well Done
Jai Hind Sir!
The purpose of this training is to make a common man
ready when the need arises. So when the country faces
any difficult times he can face them and keep courage
and believe in himself that it can be done
Then victory is theirs.
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and behind the scenes watch India's Citizen Squad
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