As part of the ongoing military cooperation between India and Nepal, their Armies will hold a 12-day combined training exercise starting Monday in Pithoragarh, Uttrakhand. The combined training will be carried out in the mountain terrain there in the northern Himalayas at an altitude of 5,000 to 6,000 feet.
Based on an agreement during the 7th Indo-Nepal Bilateral Consultative Group on security, the two countries commenced combined training at platoon level in 2011 and enhanced it to company level in 2012. It currently stands upgraded to battalion level.This will be the second battalion level combined exercise and approximately 300 personnel, including officers and JCOs from both the armies, will participate in the two-week long exercise, army officials said here on Sunday.
The aim of the exercise is to hone sub-unit level tactics and develop interoperability between Indian Army and Nepalese Army in jungle warfare, counter terrorism operations in mountainous terrain, as also to provide working knowledge of disaster management to include pandemic and epidemic diseases control and aviation aspects, they said.