00:00The Modi government has empowered the army chief to exercise powers of
00:03calling out every officer, every enrolled person of the territorial army
00:08to provide for essential guard or to be embodied for the purpose of supporting
00:13or supplementing the regular army. So this is big breaking news.
00:17All power given to the army chief to go ahead and call every officer
00:21and also any person of the territorial army to be deployed and to help
00:27the Indian army in this time of conflict.
00:31Considering what we've been seeing along the border and along the entire stretch
00:35of the states that are bordering with Pakistan, this power has been given to the army chief
00:40that if he feels the need for more deployment, more personnel, more boots on the ground,
00:44he can go ahead and take that decision.
00:46Shivani Sharma is joining us with more details on this important decision
00:50that's been taken by the Modi government, Shivani, and clearly this is a step
00:53to ensure that there is a free hand given to the forces, which the Prime Minister
00:57has repeatedly said, that our forces have complete freedom to retaliate
01:01in any manner they want to Pakistan, add to it also to ensure adequate deployment.
01:09Absolutely, Akshita, as the Indian armed forces are all set to give a befitting response
01:15to the escalations from Pakistan, they are preparing with the additional strength on ground,
01:21the boots on ground, as you were saying. And this is a notification that is now authorizing
01:25the chief of army staff to recall the territorial army personnel for supplementary duties
01:31or wherever they can contribute in the time of operational action that's going on,
01:37especially on the western border. But these deployments will be across the country
01:41in all seven plus the ATAC. So all these commands will be now having additional territorial army officers
01:50who will be contributing to these commands while the operational officers, they will be moving
01:56towards the borders if required and as in when these operations are called for, the territorial army
02:05personnel can contribute. And these are the orders for 14 out of 32 of these territorial army regiments
02:14which have been now given. So the chief of army staff has been now authorized for recalling
02:20these officers. And this order is for three years. So this is the authorization, the power which has been
02:27given to the chief of army staff because we know the situation has been escalating and Indian army
02:34is prepared with all its strength on ground. Akshita.
02:37All right, Shivani, do stay on with me. Shivani has been tracking all the latest updates that have been
02:44doing communications that have been going out from the government as well.
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