Villages of Manipur and Assam’s Barrack Valley are these days seeing unique things that both Indian and Bangladesh armies entering villages with arms and ammunition and trying to enact a terrorist flush out exercise.
The seventh joint military training exercise between India and Bangladesh is going on in Northeast states of India. Several villages in these states have been chosen for the exercise to train Bangladesh army which is recently threatened by the IS attacks.
The thirteen-day long field exercise is called Sampriti 2017. It is being conducted at Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare school of Indian army.
Indian army said that the exercise is aimed to strengthen and broaden the aspects of “interoperability” and “cooperation” between Indian and Bangladesh armies.
In this kind of exercise, both India and Bangladesh were informed and detailed about their organisational structures and tactical drills.
“Subsequently, the training advanced to various joint tactical exercises by two armies,” said spokesman of Indian army’s eastern command.
According to officers, Northeastern terrains were chosen because it’s considered the toughest after Kashmir.
“Also Northeast has multidimensional strategic points like hill, valley and forests, and is place for more than 40 terror outfits,” said an officer.
Field training was conducted at different terrains and of different tactics. Scenario of terrorists hiding in a village, which is very common in Northeast, was painted for the validation exercise. It finally culminated to daring raids in the village to neutralise the terrorists.
A few room intervention drills, where terrorists hiding into buildings were painted, were also carried out.
Both Major General Moshfequr Rahaman of Bangladesh army and Major General M.S. Gura of Indian army reviewed the exercise.
The Indian army spokesman said, “Not only the exercise tightened the strategic tie up between two nations, it has also improved the bilateral tie up even.”
The exercise will end on November 19.
