Breaking the male bastion in Army sports activities nodes and Mission Olympics of the companies, for the primary time a lady sportsperson has been enrolled as a soldier within the Corps of Navy Police (CMP).
Summy, a nationwide and worldwide stage sportswoman who excels in 400 metres athletics is the primary sportswoman to have been enrolled within the Army.
Summy belongs to Haryana and can be part of the massive variety of ladies troopers who’ve already joined the CMP and plenty of of them are already deployed in area models. Summy will prepare for the subsequent Asian Video games and Commonwealth Video games with the assistance of the Army which already has a commendable document of not solely producing Olympic stage sportspersons however have additionally chosen and honed the skills of many sportspersons beneath the Mission Olympics flagship programme.
Neeraj Chopra, who gained the Olympic Gold Medal, in Javelin in 2021 Olympics was additionally elected by the Army and enrolled within the Rajputana Rifles the place he now holds the rank of Subedar Main.
The Army introduced the choice to induct ladies as troopers within the CMP in 2019 and the primary batch underwent coaching for a 12 months in 2020 earlier than being despatched for energetic obligation to area models of the army police. Whereas there are ladies officers within the Army in varied Corps and Regiments however this was the primary time when ladies have been inducted in ranks beneath officers’ rank. With Summy’s enrolment as a sportswoman into the CMP, the doorways will now be open for extra such ladies athletes to hitch the Army and to reap the benefits of the coaching services that it provides with the intention to win medals for the nation.
BRO will get award for Atal Tunnel in Manali
The Indian Constructing Congress (IBC) has awarded the ‘Greatest Infrastructure Challenge’ award to the BRO for the Atal Tunnel mission at Rohtang Move, close to Manali. Greater than 30 cutting-edge infrastructures have been nominated for the award.
The Director Basic of BRO, Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry, obtained the award at New Delhi on April 28 on the twenty fifth annual conference of the IBC. The Atal Tunnel connects Manali to Lahaul valley and offers a strategic benefit by giving an all climate entry to Lahaul valley. This tunnel additionally goes a good distance in offering an alternate path to Ladakh.
The tunnel has additionally come as a boon for the residents of the Lahaul valley with a spurt within the variety of vacationers coming to Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh. It has been constructed utilizing the New Austrian Tunelling Methodology and has been geared up with a semi-transverse air flow system the place giant followers individually flow into air all through the tunnel. An emergency tunnel has additionally been built-in into the tunnel cross-section beneath the carriageway for evacuation throughout emergencies.
Special Forces prepare with Chinook
Approaching the heels of Infantry troops coaching on Chinook helicopters of the IAF, now Special Forces troops have additionally held a coaching train to validate plans for operational motion. As a part of this train mild strike autos of the Special Forces have been airlifted by the Chinook helicopter as an underslung load in addition to in-cabin mode.
The Army has these days been practising insertion of airborne troops utilizing helicopters and thru parachute drops with the intention to scale back the response time on induction of troops in faraway areas.
NDA course mates as service Chiefs once more
For the third time all three Chiefs of the Army, Navy and the IAF are from the identical NDA Course. Basic Manoj Pande, Admiral Hari Kumar and Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari are from the 61st Course of NDA. Earlier, Gen MM Naravane, Admiral Karambir Singh and Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Bhadauria have been additionally from the identical NDA Course.
The primary time that this occurred was in 1991 when Basic SF Rodrigues, Admiral LN Ramdas and Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Suri have been the Chiefs of their respective companies. They have been all from the First Course of the Joint Companies Wing (JSW) which was what the NDA was referred to as at its inception.
