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Friday 10 February 2012

INDIAN ARMY Rashtriya Rifles to train CRPF  young army officers now

New Delhi The CRPF's decision to train its young officers in special jungle warfare operations in Naxal strongholds under regular Army units has not yielded desired results and the force has now decided to depute them with the Rashtriya Rifles.
The decision, implemented recently by CRPF headquarters, to impart specialised training in tactical manoeuvres and leadership to its young officers before they join anti-Naxal operations has been changed and now they will be trained under the Rashtriya Rifles units operating in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere. The RR is a counter-insurgency and anti-terrorist force.
Sources said the force felt the results of the attachment of more than 50 of its Assistant Commandants (ACs) and other
officers with the Infantry battalions were "generic" and not
as required for learning jungle warfare tactics and ambush
operations in the Naxal corridor.
"The Rashtriya Rifles is the most suitable unit for training our young officers in anti-Maoist operations as they are mostly on operations similar to what CRPF does. Hence, boys will only be deployed with RR battalions henceforth," an
officer said.
Acting on the recommendations of the Cabinet Committee on
Security (CCS) in the aftermath of the Dantewada Naxal ambush in 2010 where 75 CRPF personnel were killed, the CRPF has sent its full-batch of 53 ACs to various Army units including the RR for a short training.
The feedback by deputationist CRPF officers was that while they learn all these tactics during their training in the force academy, they need to spend more time in operations and learn the skills when an RR unit fans out in dense jungles and remians there for days laying ambushes

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