{"id":41265,"date":"2018-09-05T11:53:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T11:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=41265"},"modified":"2018-09-05T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T11:53:23","slug":"no-social-media-ban-for-troops-says-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/no-social-media-ban-for-troops-says-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"No social media ban for troops, says Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<br \/>\nFaced with a growing number of issues being discussed on social media platforms, the Army is establishing a new setup for handling social media and also a new \u2018app\u2019 called \u2018Arpan\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018app\u2019 will perform multiple tasks related to service conditions and requirement of soldiers, besides ensuring that fake and mischievous information is not spread.<\/p>\n<p>A cell already handles the Army\u2019s social media outreach. The Army has a vibrant social media presence with more than 11 million followers on Facebook, 5.6 million on Twitter and another 1.23 million on Instagram.<br \/>\nArmy Chief General Bipin Rawat on Tuesday said, \u201cWe are focusing on establishing a new setup for social media and training of soldiers.\u201d He said troops could not be prevented from using the social media and smartphones, so it was best to allow them, but with discipline.<\/p>\n<p>There is an existing social media use policy of the forces that bars posting pictures of oneself in uniform, unit names, numbers or locations.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi Faced with a growing number of issues being discussed on social media platforms, the Army is establishing a new setup for handling social media and also a new \u2018app\u2019 called \u2018Arpan\u2019. The \u2018app\u2019 will perform multiple tasks related to service conditions and requirement of soldiers, besides ensuring that fake and mischievous information is [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41267,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41265\/revisions\/41267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}