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| Time not ripe for troop reduction in J&K: Army chief | | | New Delhi | Dec 9: Amid demands for reduction of troops in militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir, the Army on Sunday said though the situation in the state has improved, some more time was needed for a large-scale demilitarisation.
"The present situation starting from 2004 onwards has improved. However it did not reach a level where we should go down to carrying out a large scale demilitarisation," Army Chief Gen Deepak Kapoor said.
"I still maintain that we need to give it sometime before going ahead with any kind of reduction of forces in Jammu and Kashmir," Kapoor told NDTV.
Asked whether he thought the Army was over stretched, he said the force's primary role was to guard the territorial integrity of the nation, but there is very much the secondary responsibility of providing assistance to civil authorities.
He said the Army has already trained 85 companies of police forces to equip them to fight naxalism and expected the nucleus of them to go ahead and train the rest of the force.
"We are hopeful that by June next year, we would have trained an additional 65 companies in similar tackling of Naxalite problem.
"Additionally, we also carried out an analysis of how best to deal with it and it has been shared with the ministry of Home Affairs so that they can take requisite steps and implement those views," the Army chief added. |
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