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| Army Commanders Conference at Delhi | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 22
The Army Commanders’ Conference, to focuses on key policy, conceptual and doctrinal issues in light of prevailing and developing security environment, will get underway in Delhi on Tuesday. The Conference is being chaired by the Army Chief, General Deepak Kapoor. All Army Commanders and senior officers of the Army will attend the same. The deliberations of the conference are to continue till 27 October 2007. The Combined Commanders’ Conference, to be addressed by the Prime Minister, will be held on 24 October 2007.
The conference will take a holistic review of the security environment, status of operational readiness as also the appraisal of situation in the J&K and the North East. The aspects of force modernization including battlefield transparency, long range precision engagement and integral air-mobility will come up for in-depth discussions as part of the overall review as also the appraisal of the progress made in transforming the Army from platform centric to network enabled and finally to a fully network centric force.
The senior Army leadership is slated to discuss a large number of important issues during the four-day deliberations. One critical issue on the agenda will be the Army’s Space Vision 2020. The Army realizes the importance of space as a vital arena for future exploitation and has already established a “Space Cell” in the Army HQ to coordinate space based applications in a joint services operational environment. The deliberations during the conference will be aimed at ratifying the Army’s space philosophy; concept of utilization of space at tactical, operational and strategic levels; desired operational capabilities and related ground and space assets. Space applications are expected to enhance functional effectiveness of the Army even in non-combat operations through use of space-based communications, weather forecasts, avalanche warnings and navigation. Towards this, the issue of consolidation and convergence of networks to cater to appropriate redundancies are also slated to be deliberated upon at length.
The other issues that are expected to be addressed during the conference are effective management of ammunition and the ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS). As regards the ECHS, the focus is expected to be on expansion of the scheme for wider coverage as well as measures to make it more cost effective through enhanced outsourcing of health services, said a PIB (Defence Wing) release. |
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