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Modernisation of the Indian Army

• An Indian Army Major has been awarded Design Bureau Excellence Award by the Army Chief for indigenously developing Sarvatra bulletproof jacket.
• Sarvatra Kavach is a bulletproof jacket that can provide protection against various ammunition including that of sniper rifles.
• It provides protection from neck to ankle and upper arms.
• The project was sanctioned in June 2017 and initially the design and development of a Level IIIA soft body armour suit was sanctioned and was subsequently revised to include a Level IV hard armour panel inserts.
• The armed forces had also placed a request for two lakh ‘Bhabha Kavach bulletproof jackets’ with Ordnance Factory Board during August.
• Bhabha Kavach is the lightest bulletproof jacket used by the Indian army.
• The jacket has been named Bhabha Kavach as the nano-based technology was taken from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

Military Reform in India

• After independence, the Higher Defence Organization (HDO) handed down by Britishers remained almost completely unchanged until India-China war in 1962, when need to defence reforms aroused. • Indian needs a major military reform to combat new challenges

Need for military reform

• Strategic challenges
• War Plan
• Civil military relation
• Centralization Vs. Decentralization
• Military capacity
• Decreasing budgetary allocations
• War Equipment
• Procurement issue
• Recommendations of Kargil Review Committee
• Theatre commands for joint warfare in future conflicts.Creation of three new tri-service commands:
• Special Operations Command
• Aerospace Command and
• Cyber Command Steps taken

• Adopt major recommendation of Shekatkar Committee for enhancing combat capability and rebalancing defence expenditure of the armed forces.
• Adopt major recommendations of Kargil Review CommitteeThe HQ Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS) has been created to enhance jointness and build synergy amongst the Armed Forces, including in the areas of Long Term Plans, force capabilities, joint training, intelligence, capital acquisition, joint doctrines, etc.

 Way forward

• Formulate a comprehensive National Security Strategy (NSS).
• Establishment of the chief of defence staff
• Enhance defence budget
• Use of artificial Intelligence
• Optimizing military performance

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