Indian Army - Revision history

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‎Recruitment: the catchment area

Jyoti: /* Officers, shortage of */

2024-08-13T20:33:32Z

‎Officers, shortage of

Pdewan at 20:12, 24 May 2024

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Jyoti: /* Border management policy/ rules */

2023-11-05T05:32:29Z

‎Border management policy/ rules

Jyoti: /* Terrorist attacks */

2023-08-18T20:24:33Z

‎Terrorist attacks

Jyoti: /* Mountain strike corps */

2023-08-08T08:00:57Z

‎Mountain strike corps

Pdewan: /* Appointment */

2023-07-25T08:08:50Z

‎Appointment

Jyoti: /* Retired army dogs, horses and mules to get new lease of life */

2023-05-13T08:00:33Z

‎Retired army dogs, horses and mules to get new lease of life

Pdewan: /* Retired army dogs , horses and mules to get new lease of life */

2023-04-25T11:56:17Z

‎Retired army dogs , horses and mules to get new lease of life

Jyoti: /* Border management policy/ rules */

2022-09-11T07:34:33Z

‎Border management policy/ rules

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  However, after suspension of the Army’s enrolment drive for two years due to Covid-19 pandemic, around 37,000 youngsters from the region were deprived of these jobs. Thereafter, Centre launched its much-touted Agniveer scheme. In all, 78,692 aspirants were selected by Army from across states in the last recruitment drive completed per the old pattern in 2019-20. Thus, the region alone sent around 24% of the total recruits selected from all over the country.
  As per data, the intake of soldiers from Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal in 2017-18 was 4,988, 3,634 and 2,376, respectively, which increased to 7,813, 5,097 and 5,883, respectively, in 2019-20. There were three seats for UT Chandigarh, and these were increased to six in 2019-20. With this, a total of 18,798 young men from these three states and UT Chandigarh were selected by the Army in its last recruitment drive in 2019-20.
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 The government is also yet to approve the long-pending package to make short-service commission (SSC) more attractive for bright youngsters, with measures ranging from grant of paid study leave to a golden handshake at the end of their tenures of 10 to 14 years, despite the continuing shortage of officers and the urgent need for cadre restructuring.
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 ==LAC: forces  get ‘full freedom’ to respond/ 2020==
 [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F06%2F22&entity=Ar00100&sk=0456874B&mode=text  June 22, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
 The armed forces have been given “full freedom” to respond in an “adequate and proportionate manner” to any hostile act in accordance with their judgment, officials said after defence minister Rajnath Singh reviewed operational readiness along the Line of Actual Control LAC) with the military brass here.
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 TOI was the first to report on June 18 that the skirmish near ‘Patrolling Point-14 (PP-14)’ in the Galwan Valley region of eastern Ladakh, which left 20 Indian soldiers dead and 76 injured on June 15, had led India to decide that “costs” would now be imposed on the PLA if it tries with its old tactics of incrementally grabbing territory.
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 == Pakistan sponsored ==
 [http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-pakistan-loc-indian-army-indian-air-force-pathankot/1/781368.html Sandeep Unnithan , Shields up , “India Today” 17/10/2016]
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 ==Supersession in appointments==
 [http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Seniority-done-away-with-in-another-Army-appointment/article17051863.ece  Dinakar Peri, Seniority avoided in appointments, January 18, 2017: The Hindu]
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 Of the two officers, Lt. Gen. Singh is from the architects cadre, while Lt. Gen. Sharma is from the engineers cadre. “We were told that they preferred someone from the engineering stream at the top post,” a civilian officer in the Corps of Engineers said. Speaking last week, Gen. Rawat said that the issue of choosing Army Commanders through a selection board rather than by seniority alone would be debated. “I believe in a system of consensus. This is an issue which has not been addressed earlier but we will certainly take up with the Army Commanders to see how they feel,” he had said.
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	The court had earlier observed that the respondents had admitted that the current practice of putting Army service dogs to sleep was against the provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. (PTI)		The court had earlier observed that the respondents had admitted that the current practice of putting Army service dogs to sleep was against the provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. (PTI)
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		+	==Goats==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/article-share?article=25_04_2023_009_012_cap_TOI Rachna Bisht Rawat, April 25, 2023: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	An elegant white Safari comes to a stop outside the 7 Kumaon battalion location in the midst of a thicket of Sal trees, momentarily interrupting the noisy chatter of the forest birds overhead. The driver, a young uniformed Kumaoni soldier, leaps out to open the passenger door and Col Yazad Ilavia, Commanding Officer, steps out in his crisply ironed combat uniform, boots brushed to a sheen. He walks across to where a beautiful white long-haired mountain goat waits for him along with the unit Subedar Major and Adjutant. Formally attired in a short woolen cape in green and yellow, the Kumaon colours, embroidered with the regimental crest in gold thread, Havildar SATVIR, has been receiving the Commanding Officers of 7 Kumao n every morning for nearly 60 years.
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		+	ColIlavia steps forward, shakes hands with Hav SATVIR, and offers him a snack of two crisp biscuits that SATVIR munches on contentedly, while the Commanding Officer moves on to greet the Subedar Major of the unit and walks across to his office followed by his staff officers. This handsome mountain goat is their regiment al mascot, who participates in all ceremonial functions, receives the Commanding Officer every morning with a salute and a handshake and accompanies the unit and all its moves across the country, taking the special military train with the soldiers and officers.
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		+	The story goes that in the year 1963, a LongRange Patrol (LRP) of the unit was followed by a white mountain go at all the way back to the unit location. He was adopted by the unit and named SATVIR, an acronym for S – name of the unit Seven Kumaon, A – Battalion motto: All the way to battle, T – name of then Commanding Officer Col Thamboo, V – name of the 2IC Viswanathan, I – name of the senior most Coy Commander Ishwar Singh Dahiya, R – name of then Subedar Major Rawat.
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		+	While the name was meticulously picked up by a specially appointed team of officers, the formal christening was carried out on the third raising day of the unit on September 1, 1 965. SATVIR was conferred the rank of Lance Naik. Since then, he has been receiving his promotions like all other serving soldiers. He was promoted to the rank of Naik in 1968 and subse quently to Havildar in 1971. For the Kumaoni troops, Satvir is the real GOAT (greatest of all time as they say in sporting terminology) and their affection for him has only grown over the years. Previously called the Magnificent Seven, the battalion proudly renamed itself the SATVIR Battalion. SATVIR starts his day by going for a run with the troops on Physical Training (PT) Parade and ends it with attending the games parade in the evening. He has been excused from wearing his uniform during these parades. However, on all formal occasions Hav SATVIR shows up in his ceremonial cape which he also dons when greeting VIPs visiting the unit.
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		+	These Himalayan goats are brought from the higher ranges of the Indo-Tibet border of the Kumaon hills when they are still young. The present Hav SATVIR is the sixth in lineage. All SATVIRs have an understudy who is picked from the hills of Kumaon. He takes over when the senior Hav SATVIR abd icates and retires, usually around the age of ten years. On demise, he is accorded a military funeral and buried after a three-gun salute.
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		+	Col Ilavia, who is a second-generation officer (his father also commanded 7 Kumaon), says he has very fond memories of playing with SATVIR as a child. Since the grand old unit has many second-generation soldiers, including the serving Subedar Major, most of them have grown up with memories of SATVIR and have an emotional connection with the hardy mountain goat who they consider part of their family and vice versa. According to Brig D Thamboo AVSM (Retd), “SATVIRS come and go but the tradition has lived on and as long as 7 Kumaon remains, so will SATVIR. ”

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 [http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/retired-army-dogs-horses-and-mules-to-get-new-lease-of-life/ Daily Excelsior , Retired army dogs , horses and mules to get new lease of life "Daily Excelsior" 2/11/2015]
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 The court had earlier observed that the respondents had admitted that the current practice of putting Army service dogs to sleep was against the provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. (PTI)
 =Appointment=