ANNUAL REPORT 2002-2003 MiG-29 Trainer CCONTENTS ...................................................... 1. Security Environment .............................................................................................................................................................. 1 2. Organisation and Functions of the Ministry of Defence ....................................................................................................... 11 3. Indian Army ........................................................................................................................................................................... 18 4. Indian Navy ............................................................................................................................................................................ 25 5. Indian Air Force ..................................................................................................................................................................... 30 6. Coast Guard .......................................................................................................................................................................... 35 7. Defence Production and Supplies ......................................................................................................................................... 40 8. Defence Research and Development ................................................................................................................................... 57 9. Inter-Service Organisations................................................................................................................................................... 69 10. Recruitment and Training....................................................................................................................................................... 78 11. Resettlement and Welfare of Ex-servicemen ........................................................................................................................ 93 12. Cooperation Between the Armed Forces and Civil Authorities ........................................................................................... 105 13. National Cadet Corps .......................................................................................................................................................... 109 14. General ................................................................................................................................................................................ 115 15. Activities and Achievements of Vigilance Units ................................................................................................................... 126 16. Empowerment and Welfare of Women ................................................................................................................................ 127 Appendix-I ........................................................................................................................................................................... 130 Appendix-II .......................................................................................................................................................................... 133 Front Cover: Multi Barrel Rocket Launching System (MBRLS)—PINAKA 1 ................................................................................................................. SECURITY ENVIRONMENT Keeping Vigil 1.1 India’s security concerns are defined by a l defending the country’s borders as topographical diversity, especially on its dynamic global security environment and defined by law and enshrined in the borders, poses unique challenges to our the perception that South Asia region is of Constitution; armed forces in terms of both equipment particular global security interest. The l and training. continuing presence of terrorist and protecting the lives and property of fundamentalist forces in its neighbourhood its citizens against war, terrorism, 1.5 It’s peninsular shape provides India a has prompted India to maintain a high level nuclear threats and militant coastline of about 7600 kms and an of defence vigilance and preparedness to activities; exclusive economic zone(EEZ) of over 2 million sq kms. The island territories in the face any challenge to its security. l protecting the country from East are 1,300 kms away from the main 1.2 The security challenges facing India are instability and religious and other land, physically much closer to South East varied and complex. The country faces a forms of radicalism and extremism Asia . The peninsular India is adjacent to series of low intensity conflicts characterized emanating from neighbouring states; by tribal, ethnic and left wing movements one of the most vital sea-lanes stretching l securing the country against the use and ideologies as also the proxy war from the Suez canal and Persian Gulf to the conducted by Pakistan and various radical or the threat of use of weapons of Straits of Malacca through which much of jehadi outfits through the instrumentality of mass destruction; the oil from the Gulf region transits. This terrorism. India is also affected by the l development of material, equipment is an area which has attracted super power trafficking in drugs and proliferation of and technologies that have a bearing rivalries in the past and continues to be a small arms and the fact that it is surrounded on India’s security, particularly its region of heightened activity by extra by two neighbours with nuclear weapons defence preparedness through regional navies on account of current global and missiles and history of past aggressions indigenous research, development security concerns. and war. There is also the ever present and production, inter-alia to possibility of hostile radical fundamentalist 1.6 India’s size, strategic location, trade overcome restrictions on the transfer elements gaining access to the weapons of interests and a security environment that mass destruction in Pakistan. The country of such items; extends from the Persian Gulf in the west has experienced four major conventional l promoting further co-operation and to the Straits of Malacca in the east and border wars besides an undeclared war at understanding with neighbouring from the Central Asian Republics in the Kargil. India’s response to these threats and countries and implementing north to near the equator in the south, challenges has always been restrained, mutually agreed confidence-building underpin India’s security response. In view measured and moderate in keeping with its measures; and of this strategic spread, it is essential for peaceful outlook and reputation as a peace the country to maintain a credible land, loving country. l pursuing security and strategic air and maritime force to safeguard its dialogues with major powers and key security interests. NATIONAL SECURITY OBJECTIVES partners. THE REGIONAL PICTURE 1.3 India’s national security objectives have SALIENT FEATURES OF THE evolved against a backdrop of India’s core SECURITY ENVIRONMENT 1.7 Though there have been positive values namely, democracy, secularism and developments in Afghanistan and Sri peaceful co-existence and the national goal 1.4 India is strategically located in relation to Lanka, a closer look at the neighbourhood of social and economic development. These both continental Asia as well as the Indian and the wider region continues to present are:- Ocean region. India’s geographical and a disturbing picture. Many of the countries 2 face internal instability threatening their 1.9 In Pakistan, fundamentalist political parties against Iraq has generated a series of economic progress and peace. However, have taken advantage of the manipulated security concerns for India notably in the single greatest threat to peace and elections that debarred the two most relation to the security of the large Indian stability in the region is posed by the popular political leaders from contesting, community resident there, and of oil and combination of terrorism nurtured in and to seize power in two provincial energy supplies. There is also a very real by Pakistan for its strategic objectives, and governments and a share in the coalition risk that the US-led coalition war in Iraq the ingrained adventurism of the Pakistani government at the Centre. Reports and will distract attention from Pakistani military motivated by its obsessive and evidence mount of both inward and behaviour in its neighbourhood, compulsive hostility towards India. outward proliferation of nuclear weapon particularly in India but also Afghanistan, Virtually every terrorist act anywhere in the technologies. Pakistan has also not lived up which Pakistan will use to step up its world today has a Pakistani fingerprint to its much-publicised promises to the adventurist activities in the region as it did somewhere. It is the root and epicentre of international community to cease cross- after the Soviet withdrawal from international terrorism in the region and border terrorism against India reversing Afghanistan. The war against Iraq could beyond. even those cosmetic steps that it took at the also aggravate the divide between the beginning of the year, under international Muslim and non-Muslim world. 1.8. Afghanistan has, with the intervention of pressure, against fundamentalist the international community, only just organizations. Worse still, periodic 1.12 Against this backdrop,