Chief of the Army Staff General Dalbir Singh Suhag on Tuesday visited the Army’s 4 Corps headquarters at Tezpur and reviewed the defence preparedness of the 4 Corps which is deployed on the line of Actual Control.
General Suhag was briefed by lt General D Anbu, General officer in Command (GOC) of the 4 Corps on the security situation in Assam.
A spokesman of the 4 Corps said that the visit of General Suhag came as part of as part of his visits to various formations of the Army, to review their operational readiness and the internal security situation. The General was accompanied by lt General Praveen Bakshi, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command.
“The Chief of the Army Staff expressed his satisfaction on the conduct of operations by the Army in bringing the insurgency situation under control,” the 4 Corps spokesman said on Tuesday.
The visit of the Chief of Indian Army assumes significance as the visit came about two weeks after the Indian Air Force landed country’s combat aircraft Sukhoi 30 at the Pasighat Advanced landing Ground (AlG) in Arunachal Pradesh.
The landing of the Sukhoi, which was dubbed as a historic by different sections in the frontier state of India, is expected to boost the Indian Air Force (IAF)’s preparedness in the easternmost state of the country and is expected to boost the morale of the eastern command of the IAF.
Besides, the Pasignat AlG, the IAF has also upgraded and made operational some other AlGs at Walong, Ziro, Along and, Mechuka while the IAF has also taken up upgradation works of two AlGs at Tuting and Tawang, which is likely to be operational by this year.