BANGALORE: Concerned over the Red Brigade (Naxalites) spreading its tentacles across the country, the Indian Army has been sharing its expertise and training various state police forces to combat the Naxalites.
Colonel Commandant of the Madras Engineer Group (MEG), Major General Brajesh Kumar on Saturday told reporters that the sappers have been training the state police personnel and civil defence forces in tackling the Naxal movement which has been spreading its tentacles across the country especially south of Andhra Pradesh.
“ We have been sharing training personnel in handling Improvised Explosive Device (IED’s) and other areas where we have an expertise.
Various state government’s have approached us including Karnataka in the past and we are more than willing to help them,” he said.He added that the Sappers who have been an integral part of the relief operations after various natural disasters such as Tsunami, cyclones, earthquakes, railway accidents, floods etc have also been involved in training police and civil defence forces to tackle inland insurgency like the 26/11 and Mumbai attacks. On the rehabilitation efforts for the ex-sappers, he said “ We have a fully functional Rehabilitation Cell, where we attempt to provide gainful employment to these families along with retired personnel. Being engineers, our men are trained in some technical field. Around 65 per cent of our ex-servicemen are employed after retirement, we want it to be 100 per cent. I make a sincere appeal to the business houses to take these retiring service men who are fairly young in the 40-45 years age group, with an opportunity and in turn gain from their expertise.”
MEG’s 229th Anniversary celebration
The MEG which celebrated its 229th Anniversary in the city from September 16 to September 19, held a concluding Ceremonial Parade on Saturday.
Call of the Bugles, horse drawn carriages, and immaculately dressed soldiers comprised the parade of one of the finest regiments of the Indian Army.
Six contingents of smartly dressed soldiers, with blue Dooptas on their heads, gold and maroon coloured jari bands on their waists and spotless white spats on their boots, marched proudly to the tunes of the Pipes and Drums.
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