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  1. Bhadra

    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    Stealing Effection of Brother Officers Wife In that context, a very nasty and hit piece has appeared in the Wire penned by an Ex IPS officer NC Asthan (the officers unprofessional views on BSF Taking over defences of borders overtaking the Army were commented upon threadbare by me in the forum...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    Stealing Effection of Brother Officers Wife Army Act 1950 and corresponding Acts in the Indian Navy and Airforce have provisions to try any personnel under these Acts who is guitly of committing any Civil Offence not specifically mentions under Services Acts but are dealt under other Criminal...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    Stealing Effection of Brother Officers Wife This phrase is in news nowadays for all the wrong reasons and the Defence Forces haters are having a field day on the subject. Librandus of various shades and hay are going ga ga over it since the Armed Forces have gone to the Supreme Court to allow...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    It is a very good initiative taken by some DODOs. All battalions of Ladakh Scouts should be given these camels in adequate numbers. Ladakh Scouts can be restructured a little to have Camel platoons with each Company. Let us have Ladakh Risala based on Bactrian Camels to outflank light tanks...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    Do not ape Western Societies and their Models, See the population Matrix. They do not have sufficient population to cater for young recruitable males to fill all ranks in the Armed Forces especially Europeans and Israelis. Even Sasha and Laras of USSR had to take up arms to defend themselves...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    In case of a lady officer, they can not be posted in a cluster. Lady officers as technical graduates are being posted in Technical Arms (fighting units) such as Engineers and Signals and Air Defence Corps and they all have front line roles especially Combat Engineers. Imagine a Lady officer...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    We are a developed Society ... yes... that is why we are not naked aboriginals and have acquired civilizational instincts of selection, use of power and force of all kinds, restrictions, and prohibition and governed by laws which are not necessarily based on natural alignments but artificial...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    A female is a natural and most powerful attraction for males. CI / CT is a battle without fronts.. It is difficult for a male collogue to open the shirt of a female soldier if she gets injured on the stomach. and if a bullet hits her thigh then still more difficult to rip her pants and...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    There are a lot of female officers deployed in Kashmir but only officers so far. In CI / CT operations there is no front and no rear. It is an operation without lines or frontiers though Kashmir does have a frontiers vis a vis Pakistan. So I can say that there is no protected environment in the...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    Army HQs do require civilians because it is a very huge organisation and can not be run exclusively by uniformed manpower. How ever, keeping civilians at some important and key posts has proved very harmful and dangerous for Army, specially the MS Branch and AG's Branch that deal with personnel...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    Defence ministry sets up panel for better functioning of service headquarters The new committee has been constituted as a follow-up to the recommendations made by the Lieutenant General DB Shekatkar committee in its report on enhancing the military’s combat potential and rebalancing defence...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    With reference to the above post, It is an irony and reflection on what is wrong with Indian's oldest and largest MIC called OFV and DRDO. One may easily ask how. But then ask himself - where is it in the world that the Armed Forces are required to defend the longest high altitude, ice-laden...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    World-class gear for 30K additional troops at LAC With additional troops to be positioned along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh during winter, the Army is procuring world-class snow boots, gloves, layered jackets, trousers and sleeping bags. New sleeping habitat like arctic tents...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    Indian Army is a very huge organization and there is a huge potential for the military indulging in some of the internal business activities to its own and national benefits. The first and foremost field is that id Finance. The Army has resources and potential to run its own Bank and a...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    This is so shameful... OFB needs to put their heads in the sand...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    That is the only good and workable idea. All those who are recruited in CAPF should serve in the Army for 5- 10 years and then come to CAPF. Reservation for Ex-Servicemen is very few and that too in class IV and claa II posts, in a govt job market that is virtually dry. Moreover, his pay is...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    Hindi poet Dushyant Kumar wrote : कहाँ तो तय था चिराग़ाँ हर एक घर के लिए कहाँ चिराग़ मयस्सर नहीं शहर के लिए यहाँ दरख़तों के साये में धूप लगती है चलो यहाँ से चलें और उम्र भर के लिए Look at the sorry state of affairs where OFB has brought the country's defense preparedness to. The mammoth...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    All pensionary issues of retired central govt employees minus the Railways is looked after and managed by DOPT which a separate depth under it for Pensions. Railways pay pensions to its retired employees through their pension offices looked after by Railways accounts.
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    That is very good question which I will try and answer. A civilian employee of GoI including police forces and CAPF are recruted around 22 year of age and retire at above 56 years of age thereby rendering about 35 to 40 years of service. When he retires he has grown up children well settled...
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    Indian Army: News and Discussion

    * From the figures above it appears as if MoD is more of Ministry of Babus rather than fighting soldiers.. * About 50 percent of the expenditure incurred is on pensionary liability including a sizable amount of Civilian employees pensions. * Whereas officer strength of Armed Forces is...
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