Army Chief Gen Dwivedi to visit Nepal next week

The Army Chief’s sojourn to Nepal adjacent week volition people different important section successful the evolving subject diplomacy betwixt the 2 nations, sources successful the defence constitution said.

It is expected to fortify the defence ties paving the mode for continued collaboration connected aggregate fronts, including subject exercises, grooming programmes and strategical discussions connected determination information concerns, they said.

General Dwivedi is acceptable to clasp extended talks with his Nepalese counterpart General Ashok Raj Sigdel too gathering the apical governmental enactment of the Himalayan nation.

Nepal is important for India successful the discourse of its wide strategical interests successful the portion and the leaders of the 2 countries person often noted the age-old “Roti Beti” relationship.

Land-locked Nepal relies heavy connected India for the proscription of goods and services. Nepal’s entree to the oversea is done India and it imports a predominant proportionality of its requirements from and done India.

India and Nepal stock a peculiar relationship, reinforced by cultural, humanities and geographical factors. This enslaved has evolved into a robust subject concern that plays a cardinal relation successful enhancing determination security, the sources said.
General Dwivedi is besides apt to sojourn the Shri Muktinath temple successful Mustang portion of Nepal.

It is learnt that India’s archetypal Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat besides wanted to sojourn the temple. In his memory, a Bell named ‘Bipin Bell’ was installed successful the temple successful February 2023.

Nepal has continued its adjacent ties with India, with regular exchanges of subject training, visits and defence modernisation.

India and Nepal are captious partners successful enhancing communal subject capabilities, peculiarly done grooming programmes.

General Dwivedi’s sojourn is expected to absorption connected the ongoing defence modernisation successful some militaries, done assorted initiatives.

Both countries connection courses to subject unit successful reputed subject institutions. This collaboration has seen implicit 300 Nepali Army unit trained successful India this twelvemonth alone, successful specialised fields.

Similarly, the India Army unit besides acquisition courses successful Nepal.

A cardinal pillar of India-Nepal subject practice is the yearly ‘Surya Kiran’ associated subject exercise, which enhances interoperability betwixt the 2 equipped forces.

This exercise, which focuses connected counterterrorism, catastrophe alleviation and humanitarian assistance, volition spot its 18th variation successful December successful Nepal, the sources said.

The scope and complexity of this workout are acceptable to beryllium expanded, providing an accidental to further amended the operational synergy betwixt the 2 armies, they said.

India has been supporting Nepal successful its subject modernisation by supplying assorted forms of subject hardware, including tiny arms, vehicles and precocious grooming simulators.

Through the Nepal-India bilateral consultative radical connected information issues, the 2 countries person held 15 meetings to sermon defence practice and respective instrumentality needs person been met nether this forum, the sources said.

General Dwivedi’s sojourn volition supply an accidental to further heighten these engagements, including discussions connected improving catastrophe effect mechanisms and expanding determination information cooperation, they said.

The ample colonisation of Indian ex-servicemen successful Nepal besides plays an important relation successful strengthening the ties betwixt the 2 countries.