{"id":8672,"date":"2022-10-31T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T05:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:24:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:54:55","slug":"special-operation-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/special-operation-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Operation Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Special Operation Medal:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The medal was\u00a0<strong>constituted in 2018\u00a0<\/strong>with the objective to recognize those operations, which have high degree of planning, high significance for the security of the country\/State\/UT and have significant impact on the security of larger sections of the society.<\/li>\n<li>The award shall be conferred for Special Operation in the areas such as\u00a0<strong>counter terrorism, border action, arms control, prevention of narcotics smuggling and rescue operations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>All recommendations for the award is sent to the MHA within three months of the special operation.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>announced on 31st of October every year<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In a year,\u00a0<strong>normally 3 Special Operations are considered for the award<\/strong>\u00a0and in extra ordinary circumstances; the award\u00a0<strong>may be given up to 5 Special Operations to encourage State\/UT Police.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1872162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award shall be considered for Special operations in areas such as counter terrorism, border action,etc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}