New Delhi: Army Chief Gen. Manoj Pandey Reviewed a major war exercise in Eastern on Saturday Ladakh Taking stock of the operational preparedness along the border, even as Indian and Chinese troops broke away from a standoff at Patrolling Point-15 in the larger Gogra-Hot Springs area.
On a two-day visit to the operational areas under the crucial 14 Corps based at Leh, General Pandey on Saturday visited ‘front areas’ along the LAC. He was briefed on the overall security situation as well as the decommissioning process in PP-15 by the top commanders, including Northern Command major lieutenant general Upendra Dwivedi and 14 Corps Commander Lt-Gen. anindya sengupta,
The significant development was the large-scale ‘Parvat Prahar’ exercise, involving infantry troops, T-90S and T-72 tanks, mechanized infantry, K-9 Vajra, Bofors and M-777 howitzers, helicopters and aircraft. – altitude area.
The exercise involved elements of the Mathura-based 1 Strike Corps, which has about 70,000 troops and heavy weapons, and “rebalanced” the LAC from its previous role on the Western Front with Pakistan as the primary front. The 17 Mountain Strike Corps, which is headquartered at Panagarh in West Bengal, in turn, is focused on the eastern theater with China, including the Chumbi Valley opposite Sikkim, as previously reported by TOI.
“The mountain strike exercise is going on for several days in the ‘depth areas’ of eastern Ladakh, as per bilateral protocol and norms, long before the disengagement at PP-15 started on Thursday morning,” a senior official said.
A phased and coordinated withdrawal of rival troops to the PP-15 near Kugrang Nallah is due to be completed on Monday.
On Sunday, General Pandey is set to move to the Siachen Glacier-Saltoro Ridge area, where Indian and Pakistani troops face each other along the 110-km actual ground position line.
On a two-day visit to the operational areas under the crucial 14 Corps based at Leh, General Pandey on Saturday visited ‘front areas’ along the LAC. He was briefed on the overall security situation as well as the decommissioning process in PP-15 by the top commanders, including Northern Command major lieutenant general Upendra Dwivedi and 14 Corps Commander Lt-Gen. anindya sengupta,
The significant development was the large-scale ‘Parvat Prahar’ exercise, involving infantry troops, T-90S and T-72 tanks, mechanized infantry, K-9 Vajra, Bofors and M-777 howitzers, helicopters and aircraft. – altitude area.
The exercise involved elements of the Mathura-based 1 Strike Corps, which has about 70,000 troops and heavy weapons, and “rebalanced” the LAC from its previous role on the Western Front with Pakistan as the primary front. The 17 Mountain Strike Corps, which is headquartered at Panagarh in West Bengal, in turn, is focused on the eastern theater with China, including the Chumbi Valley opposite Sikkim, as previously reported by TOI.
“The mountain strike exercise is going on for several days in the ‘depth areas’ of eastern Ladakh, as per bilateral protocol and norms, long before the disengagement at PP-15 started on Thursday morning,” a senior official said.
A phased and coordinated withdrawal of rival troops to the PP-15 near Kugrang Nallah is due to be completed on Monday.
On Sunday, General Pandey is set to move to the Siachen Glacier-Saltoro Ridge area, where Indian and Pakistani troops face each other along the 110-km actual ground position line.