Army Chief General Chairs High-Level Meeting

Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi on August 20, chaired a high-level meeting focusing on the ongoing transformational initiatives by the Indian Army and its contribution towards achieving the objective of Viksit Bharat by 2047.

Army Chief General Chairs High-Level Meeting

• According to an official statement, today’s discussion reaffirmed the Indian Army’s commitment to evolving into a future ready force that is not only capable of protecting national interests but also contributing significantly to the vision of Viksit Bharat@2047.
• The discussions were centred around ongoing transformational initiatives by the Indian Army and its contribution towards achieving the objective of Viksit Bharat@2047.
• Actions to enhance Jointness and Integration in armed forces were also discussed for strengthening of joint service structures and organisations besides the need to establish common military stations and units for logistics, communication, and other essential services.

Meeting Attendee

The meeting, which will continue till August 21, is being attended by the General Officer Commanding-in-Chiefs (GOC-in-Cs) of the Indian Army’s seven commands.

Focus on modernization

The Indian Army’s focus will be on modernization of all combat arms, combat support arms and the logistic units. Discussions were also held on enhancing joint operations and integration between the Army, Navy and Air Force to face the future the challenges of warfare. The Indian Army will look towards indigenization, supporting the domestic defence industry and facilitate India’s position as a leading defence exporter.

Several broad goals

• The senior leadership outlined several broad goals to be pursued in next decade, including, theaterisation, reorganisation of Army and Command Headquarters, realignment of Command, Corps and Area HQ boundaries.
• Other discussion agendas included world class infrastructure development, enhancing multi-domain and cross-domain operational capabilities to include land, air, cyber and space.

Conclusion of this discussion

The discussion concluded with the ongoing initiative of Indian Army aligned to the national vision including military education and training, defence diplomacy, whole of nation approach, healthcare and education and youth empowerment and sports.