Indian Army to Hold Joint Military Exercise With B’desh From 6 Nov

India and Bangladeshi soldiers during Sampriti exercise in 2016. 

(Photo Courtesy: SSBCrack)

Indian Army is set to hold a joint military exercise from 6 November with Bangladesh in its new training centre in Meghalaya’s Umroi, reported Indian Express. It said that in order to improve ties between troops from the neighbouring nations, similar exercises will also be held with China and Myanmar’s armies from next year.

The training exercise has been named ‘Sampriti 2017’.

Defence Public Relation Officer Suneet Newton told IE that a six-day Command Post Exercise (CPX) will be conducted at the Joint Training Node in Umroi from 6 November. A 13-day Field Training Exercise (FTX) will be conducted from the same day at the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School at Vairangte in Mizoram, also from Monday.

This will be the seventh such joint exercise between India and Bangladesh.

It also aims to enhance interoperability between the two nations and enrich from each other’s experience while carrying out counter insurgency and counter terrorist operations.

Defence PRO Newton to <i>IE</i>

He said that while the CPX would focus on joint planning and conducting counter-terrorist operations in semi-mountainous regions, the FTX would concentrate on “physical conditioning, training on special heli-borne operations, neutralisation of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs),” etc. in counter-terrorist operations scenario.

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