New India Reserve battalions to be raised to counter naxal menance
By Frontier India | March 5th, 2008 | Category: Counter Terrorism, Para Military and Coast Guard News | 1 Comment »
India has recently approved the raising of 35 additional India Reserve (IR) battalions during the period 2007-08 to 2009-10, to be sanctioned, as per the internal security situation and requirements, to various States, including those affected by naxalite activities.
In the 9 states, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, where, for dealing with naxalite activities, assistance for the policing and operational needs of security forces is provided under the Security Related Expenditure (SRE) scheme of Ministry of Home Affairs, 26 IR battalions have already been sanctioned earlier. These have added to the capabilities of the State police forces in dealing with various law and order problems.
For dealing with naxalite activities, States are being assisted in, and requested for, steps as are important for effective policing, which include filling up of vacancies in State police forces and the raising of specialized forces, trained in counter-insurgency and jungle-warfare.
its very important to train our army forces with better equpitment.,i hav no doubt in my mind that the indian army is one of the best in the world but we oue far behind in terms of equpitment,raising new battalions is a good idea but not enough if they are not provided with the necessary equpitments….more night vission gear,better sniper riffles,more effective submachine guns,it all would make a huge diffrence…pls let me know what ur outlook on this is …thank u