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JAIPUR: India's subject mightiness lined a 3km agelong of Mahal Road successful Jaipur's Jagatpura connected Thursday arsenic the 78th Army Day Parade moved retired of the confines of a cantonment to a nationalist thoroughfare for the archetypal clip successful the yearly event's history.Chief of Army Staff Gen Upendra Dwivedi took the salute astatine what was a spectacular parade of subject instrumentality and a march-past by contingents representing assorted regimental centres, watched by a lakh-strong assemblage lining the route.Five soldiers - Sub Maj Pawan Kumar of 25 Punjab Regiment, Havildar Sunil Kumar Singh of 625 EME Battalion, Lance Naik Dinesh Kumar of 5 Field Regiment, Lance Naik Subhash Kumar from 7 Jat, and Lance Naik Pradeep Kumar of 1 Para (Special Force) - were posthumously conferred Sena medals for gallantry astatine the event.Overcome by emotion, Lance Naik Pradeep's parent Ram Snehi fainted during the ceremony. Soldiers lasting adjacent to her promptly attended to the aged pistillate and helped her get backmost connected her feet.In different first, Bhairav Battalion contingents from Rajputana Rifles and Sikh Light Infantry joined the parade, showcasing the Army's strategical displacement towards warfare capabilities specifically designed for rapid, high-impact operations on the planetary borders.
A fly-past by a fleet of antithetic Army helicopters added aerial splendour to the event, which besides featured Nepal Army Band. Chants of "Bharat Mata ki jai" rend the aerial erstwhile T-90 and Arjun tanks, upgraded Schilka aerial defence system, K-9 Vajra, all-terrain vehicles, and indigenous anti-tank rocket Helina rolled past. Gen Dwivedi said the Army is continuously upgrading its capabilities and gathering "super specialists" successful mentation for aboriginal warfare.
He said Bhairav Battalion had been created to capable the spread betwixt Ghatak and Special Forces."The Army is afloat acceptable for immoderate benignant of situation," the Chief of Army Staff said. "What the state present needs is instrumentality designed and developed successful India. Indigenisation is not conscionable a goal; it has go a strategical necessity."Gen Dwivedi said Operation Sindoor established "a caller normal" by demonstrating the Army's speedy response, improved coordination and precise action.
