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The Army said that the video received enthusiastic effect from an assemblage that included cinephiles, planetary delegates and manufacture stalwarts.(Express File)
With Pune preparing to play big to the adjacent Army Day Parade connected January 15 successful 2025, the Army connected Sunday launched the promotional video for it astatine the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) successful Goa.
The Army said that the video received enthusiastic effect from an assemblage that included cinephiles, planetary delegates and manufacture stalwarts.
“Bollywood celebrities similar R Madhavan and Rakul Preet Singh expressed their excitement successful the video, lauding the dedication of soldiers and encouraging citizens to witnesser this expansive occasion.” said a property connection issued done the Defence PRO, Pune connected Sunday.
This volition beryllium the 3rd juncture connected which a metropolis different than New Delhi volition big Army Day Parade, keeping successful enactment with the Union government’s determination of holding events of nationalist value extracurricular the nationalist capital, successful bid to springiness them wider visibility and information of citizens. The Army Day parades of 2023 and 2024 were hosted by Bangalore and Lucknow respectively.
“Known for its subject heritage, Pune has been a important contributor successful India’s defence landscape. It serves arsenic the office of the Southern Command of the Indian Army and houses prestigious institutions specified arsenic the National Defence Academy (NDA) and the College of Military Engineering (CME). This year’s parade volition instrumentality spot astatine the Bombay Engineering Group and Centre, featuring marching contingents, mechanized columns, and technological exhibits. Highlights volition see demonstrations of cutting-edge defence technologies specified arsenic drones and robotics, on with captivating performances similar combat demonstrations and martial arts displays.” the property connection read.
The main diagnostic of the Army Day commemoration is simply a parade by contingents from assorted formations of the Army, which is reviewed by the Army Chief and a solemn lawsuit attended by cardinal defence dignitaries.
Every year, January 15 is commemorated arsenic “Army Day” to people the juncture erstwhile General (later Field Marshal) KM Cariappa took implicit the bid of the Indian Army from General Sir FRR Bucher, the past British Commander-in-Chief, successful 1949 and became the archetypal Indian Commander-in-Chief of Independent India.
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