ITANAGAR, June 7 – The Centre’s move to deploy more security forces along the Indo-China border in Arunachal Pradesh is to develop the country’s capability to effectively meet the future security challenges, said Governor, General (Retd) JJ Singh.
“It was a part of planned augmentation of the security forces capability to defend the country and to meet its future security challenges,” confirmed the Governor, while talking to mediapersons here yesterday in the sidelines of the valedictory function of a five-day golf orientation camp, organized at the Raj Bhawan Golf Course.
The former Army chief said that increase of the force level, improvement of weapons, fighting platforms, intelligence acquiring and other equipments were aimed at enhancing the capabilities of the personnel to effectively meet any sort of challenges.
He said two divisions of Army, each
comprising around 25,000 to 30,000 personnel, along with supporting elements including artillery, medicine, signals, engineering, etc would be deployed along the international borders.
The exercise would be done in a phased manner in the next few years along with development of roads and other infrastructure along the borders, he added.
“It was a part of planned augmentation of the security forces capability to defend the country and to meet its future security challenges,” confirmed the Governor, while talking to mediapersons here yesterday in the sidelines of the valedictory function of a five-day golf orientation camp, organized at the Raj Bhawan Golf Course.
The former Army chief said that increase of the force level, improvement of weapons, fighting platforms, intelligence acquiring and other equipments were aimed at enhancing the capabilities of the personnel to effectively meet any sort of challenges.
He said two divisions of Army, each
comprising around 25,000 to 30,000 personnel, along with supporting elements including artillery, medicine, signals, engineering, etc would be deployed along the international borders.
The exercise would be done in a phased manner in the next few years along with development of roads and other infrastructure along the borders, he added.
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