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Speaking up of 78th Army Day, Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026), highlighted however sex inclusion has expanded passim assorted branches, including artillery, aerial defence, and the Territorial Army. He said, “We are acceptable to induct women successful the infantry and India arsenic federation and nine is acceptable to judge it.”
General Dwivedi besides highlighted that women are serving successful skydiving teams, method corps, and bid positions. The Army has reopened territorial recruitment for women and has been expanding opportunities successful areas specified arsenic intelligence, logistics, and education.
“We person besides opened up aesculapian non-tech arsenic good arsenic the Army Education Corps for the same. As announced past year, the all-women skydiving show squad [Nari Yodha Skydiving Team] astatine Bhatinda (Punjab) was created.” Gen. Dwivedi said.
Giving an estimation connected the existent practice of women successful the Army, helium said, “Regarding women officers and women soldiers, feedback connected show has been rather encouraging. We are expanding progressively, and arsenic I had mentioned past year, we are present test-bedding constricted entries into the Territorial Army, Home and Hearth with 36 vacancies.
Talking astir the improvement and infrastructure enhancement, Gen. Dwivedi said that capableness improvement and infrastructure enhancement are progressing done a whole-of-government approach. As regards the Western Front, pursuing the Pahalgam panic onslaught a wide determination to respond decisively was taken astatine the highest level. “Operation Sindoor was conceptualised and executed with precision.”
Gen. Dwivedi said that successful enactment with the imaginativeness of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, “we are arrogant to accidental that 159 retired of 175 ammunition categories the Indian Army holds person been afloat indigenised, that is, implicit 90%. exertion infusion.”
