By IANS,
Raipur: The Indian Army plans to set up military schools in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha under the central command of the defence establishment, a senior officer said Wednesday.
“The first such military school is proposed to come up in Chhattisgarh,” Lieutenant General Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Army’s Central Command, told newsmen here.
He informed that there were only a few military schools in the country and the Army was exploring the possibilities of setting up new ones.
The officer remarked about the presence of thousands of armymen in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist stronghold restive Bastar region for a jungle warfare training camp. “The Army still believes that Naxalites are their brothers and sisters, we have taken up several social
responsibility works in the red zone near Narayanpur in Bastar region included health camp attended by hundreds of people,” he said.
“When the Army was stepping into Naxal (Maoist) heartland, there were talks why were they were moving in the war zone. Now I can say that the war zone will be converted into a peace zone soon,” Ahluwalia said referring to a number of social works being carried out by the armymen in violence-hit Bastar region.