Army’s Advisory Group discusses security threats and training strategies

Hyderabad, May 29 : A series of apex body training conferences of the Indian Army under the aegis of Headquarters Army Training Command (ARTRAC) were organized at Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering, Secunderabad on May 28 and 29th.

The focus of these conferences was to analyse the contemporary training of the Indian Army through the prism of the emerging security threats, thereby devising a roadmap to consolidate the existing strengths and chart an optimally implementable evolutionary training plan that effectively addresses the imperatives of the operational & technological environment.

The conferences were chaired by Lieutenant General Sanjeev Madhok, General Officer Commanding in Chief, ARTRAC, Shimla and were attended by Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Information Systems and Training), senior officers from Integrated Headquarters of Ministry of Defence (Army), Headquarters of Regional Commands as also Commandants of all Category ‘A’ training establishments of the Indian Army.

In his keynote address, the Army Commander underlined the imperative need for augmenting capabilities of Indian Army in view of the dynamically evolving challenges to our security for which the training establishments ought to re-organise themselves and re-engineer their curricula to successfully meet the training needs of the IA. The General Officer also reiterated that all the training establishments need to evolve innovative training methods to optimise the training duration without any dilution in training.

The Army Commander also articulated that the impetus of training in the contemporary era needs to be reoriented to evolve knowledge based military society wherein officers are christened as “Scholar Warriors” and Junior Commissioned Officers and Other Ranks became “Thinking Soldiers”. For this, the General Officer reiterated that the training establishments must create an environment conducive to `Learning’ rather than `teaching’.

Some of the other core issues deliberated upon were methodologies to harness the phenomenal potential to enhance the efficacy of training, development of alternate training methodologies in view of shrinking training areas, strengthening linkages between Army & Civil academia, etc.

The Army Commander complimented all participants for their constructive suggestions and the training establishments for their professional grooming of all ranks and the yeomen service rendered by them over the years.  INN