NEW DELHI: Some jaws, sailors and airmen will participate for the first time in one of the sessions of the first level combined commanders‘conference (CCC) to be chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra modi this week.
The prime minister will review the operational situation on the Chinese and Pakistani fronts, as well as progress towards the establishment of integrated three-service structures and commands during the CCC, which is conducted with all the main commanders of the army, Marina and IAF at Kevadia in Gujarat from March 4-6.
“The inclusion of JCOs, NCOs (junior officers and NCOs) and other ranks for a session on ‘Morale and Motivation’ is an innovative step,” an officer said Wednesday.
“The prime minister will interact with them during the session, which will take place on March 6, and will hear their views on morale and motivation in the military and daily operations on the ground in the three services,” he added. .
Since taking office as prime minister in 2014, Modi has lobbied for the armed forces to organize meetings like the CCC on warships at sea, military cantonments or air bases, rather than restricting them to just New Delhi.
Consequently, the CCC was carried out on the INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier in front of Kochi in 2015, while it took place in the Indian Military Academy at Dehradun in 2017 and Jodhpur Air Base in 2018.
This year’s CCC, near the statue of the Sardar Patel unit in Kevadia, comes at a time when the withdrawal of troops on both sides of the Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh with China was completed. But there is still no sign of a decline in the other “sticking points” in Depsang Plains, Gogra, Hot Springs and Demchok.
India and Pakistan have also opted for a new border ceasefire since February 24 after a particularly violent 2020, with artillery duels and gunfire between rival armies breaking all annual records in the last 18 years.
The CCC will also take place ahead of the imminent creation of two unified three-service commands in the form of the “functional” Air Defense Command (ADC) and the “geographic” Maritime Theater Command (MTC) this year, as reported by TOI in December.
The two new unified commands, to be followed by theater commands for the land borders with Pakistan and China, are part of the largest military restructuring plan in history to build an integrated land-air-sea war machine within constraints. budgetary.
As of now, India has up to 17 single service commands (Army 7, IAF 7 and Navy 3), with very little synergy in planning and operations, as well as disjointed command and control structures.
The only two existing tri-Service commands emerged after the Kargil conflict of 1999. The Andaman and Nicobar Command was established as a “geographic” command in October 2001, while the Strategic Forces Command was “functional” to manage the arsenal. The country’s nuclear power plant emerged in January 2003.
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