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Editor-in-Chief Army Day Hasibur Rahman Interview | Coast 12 18 Senior Editor Editor Guard Day Celebrations 2016 Ruby T Sharma Ehsan Khusro Coordination Business Manager Sekhar Babu Madduri Dharam Pal Goswami Our Correspondents DELHI: Dhananjay Mohanty; Capt DK Sharma; Manoj Tuli; Nampibou Marinmai; Wg Cdr Rochelle D’Silva; Col Rohan Anand; Ved Pal; ALLAHABAD: Gp Capt BB Pande; BENGALURU: Dr MS Patil; CHANDIGARH: Parvesh Sharma; CHENNAI: T Shanmugam; GANDHINAGAR: Wg Cdr Abhishek Matiman; GUWAHATI: Lt Col Suneet Newton; IMPHAL: Lt Col Ajay Kumar Sharma; JALANDHAR: Naresh Vijay Vig; JAMMU: Lt Col Manish Mehta; JODHPUR: Lt Col Manish Ojha; KOCHI: Cdr Sridhar E Warrier ; KOHIMA: Lt Col E Musavi; KOLKATA: Wg Cdr SS Birdi; 4 Address by the President… Dipannita Dhar; LUCKNOW: Ms Gargi Malik Sinha; MUMBAI: Cdr Rahul Sinha; 16 Indo-Japan Coast Guard Joint… Interview | DGDS Narendra Vispute; Wg Cdr Samir S Gangakhedkar; Gp Capt SK NAGPUR: PALAM: 24 Lt Gen JFR Jacob Passes Away AD Corps 26 Mehta; PUNE: Mahesh Iyengar; SECUNDERABAD: MA Khan Shakeel; SHILLONG: Gp Capt Amit Mahajan; SRINAGAR: Col NN Joshi; TEZPUR: Lt Col Sombith Ghosh; 25 Exercise ‘Sarvatra Prahar’ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Suresh Shreedharan; UDHAMPUR: Col SD Goswami; 30 Conduct of Medical and Blood… VISAKHAPATNAM: Cdr CG Raju. 32 Coast Guard Boarding Teams… Published by: Nitin D Wakankar 38 13th Regiment of Artillery… Offg Addl DG (Media & Communication) 39 Gallantry and Other Defence… Directorate of Public Relations, South Block, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi-110011 Regulars Follow us on: 22 Photo Features: Army Day Celebrations www.facebook.com/DefenceMinIndia https://twitter.com/spokespersonMoD A Unique Platform for 36 Editorial Office: L-1 Block, Church Road, New Delhi-110001, Pensioners’ Welfare Telefax : 23094668 Telephone : 23092768 Email : [email protected] E-in-C: ASCON-32078 [email protected] For subscriptions contact : Business Manager, Sainik Samachar, Telephone : 23092768 Subscription Rates: Inland (Ordinary): One Year Rs 100.00, Overseas (Surface Mail): Rs 450.00 Concessional (per year): Rs 20.00 (Applicable for dependants of service personnel & ex-Servicemen.) For all correspondence subscribers must quote their subscription number For more details visit our website: http://sainiksamachar.nic.in On front cover: The President, Mr Pranab Mukherjee giving away the highest gallantry award Ashok Chakra to Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami of 9 Para (Special Forces) posthumously, the award received by his wife Smt Bhawana Goswami, on the occasion of the 67th Republic Day Parade. pic: GD Mehra 67TH REPUBLIC DAY 2016 President’s Address My Fellow Citizens: programmes like MGNREGA is On the eve of the sixty-seventh aimed at enhancing employment Republic Day of our nation, I extend generation to rejuvenate the rural warm greetings to all of you in India economy. and abroad. I convey my special The Make-in-India campaign greetings to members of our Armed will boost manufacturing by Forces, Para-military Forces and facilitating easy conduct of business Internal Security Forces. I pay my and improving competitiveness tribute to the brave soldiers who made of domestic industry. The Start- the supreme sacrifice of their lives in up India programme will foster defending India’s territorial integrity innovation and encourage new-age and in upholding the rule of law. entrepreneurship. The National Skill On twenty-sixth January 1950, Development Mission envisages parts of India were affected by severe our Republic was born. On this day, skilling 300 million youth by 2022. drought, other areas reeled under we gave ourselves the Constitution of There will be, amongst us, devastating floods. Unusual weather India. This day saw the culmination occasional doubters and baiters. Let conditions impacted our agricultural of heroic struggle of an extraordinary us continue to complain; to demand; production. Rural employment and generation of leaders who overcame to rebel. This too is a virtue of income levels suffered. colonialism to establish the world’s democracy. But let us also applaud largest democracy. They pulled We can call out these challenges what our democracy has achieved. together India’s amazing diversity to because we are aware of them. There With investments in infrastructure, build national unity, which has brought is a great virtue in acknowledging a manufacturing, health, education, us so far. The enduring democratic problem and resolving to address it. science and technology, we are institutions they established have India is building and implementing positioning ourselves well for given us the gift of continuity on the strategies to solve these problems. achieving a higher growth rate path of progress. India today is a rising This year, with an estimated growth which will in the next ten to fifteen power, a country fast emerging as a rate of 7.3 percent, India is poised years help us eliminate poverty. global leader in science, technology, to become the fastest growing large Reverence for the past is one innovation and start-ups, and whose economy. Contraction in global oil of the essential ingredients of economic success is the envy of the prices has helped maintain external nationalism. Our finest inheritance, world. sector stability and control domestic the institutions of democracy, ensure The year 2015 has been a prices. Despite occasional setbacks, to all citizens justice, equality, and year of challenges. During this industrial performance this year has gender and economic equity. When year, the global economy remained been strong. grim instances of violence hit at subdued. Unpredictability ruled the Aadhaar, with its present reach these established values which are commodity markets. Uncertainty of 96 crore people, is helping at the core of our nationhood, it is marked the institutional responses. in direct transfer of benefits, time to take note. We must guard In such troubled environment, no plugging leakages and improving ourselves against the forces of one nation could be an oasis of transparency. Over 19 crore bank violence, intolerance and unreason. growth. India’s economy also had accounts opened under the Pradhan For revitalising the forces to face the blowback. Weak investor Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana is the of growth, we need reforms and sentiments led to withdrawal of funds single largest exercise in the world progressive legislation. It is the from emerging markets including at financial inclusion. The Saansad bounden duty of the law makers India putting pressure on the Indian Adarsh Gram Yojana aims to create to ensure that such legislation is rupee. Our exports suffered. Our model villages. The Digital India enacted after due discussion and manufacturing sector is yet to programme is an effort to bridge the debate. A spirit of accommodation, recover fully. digital divide. The Pradhan Mantri cooperation and consensus-building In 2015, we were also denied Fasal Bima Yojana targets farmer’s should be the preferred mode of the bounty of nature. While large welfare. Increased spending on decision-making. Delays in decision- 4 Sainik Samachar February 1-15, 2016 making and implementation can only chaos. There will be disputes among should be a free creative man harm the process of development. nations; and, as is well-known, the who can battle against historical Peace is the primary objective closer we are to a neighbour the circumstances and adversities of of a rational consciousness as well higher the propensity for disputes. nature”. The advent of the “Fourth as our moral universe. It is the There is a civilized way to bridge Industrial Revolution” demands that foundation of civilisation and a disagreement; dialogue, ideally, this free and creative man should necessity for economic progress. should be a continual engagement. also be able to master the velocity of And yet, we have never been able to But we cannot discuss peace under change to absorb disruptions which answer a simple question: why does a shower of bullets. are getting embedded in the systems peace remain so elusive? Why has We on our subcontinent have and societies. An eco-system that peace been so much more difficult a historic opportunity to become a fosters critical thinking and makes to attain than degenerate conflict? beacon to the world at a time of great teaching intellectually stimulating is As the twentieth century closed danger. We must attempt to resolve necessary. It must inspire scholarship down with a remarkable revolution the complex edges of our emotional and encourage unfettered respect in science and technology, we had and geo-political inheritance with for knowledge and teachers. It must some reason for optimism that the our neighbours through a peaceful instill a spirit of reverence towards twenty-first century would mark an dialogue, and invest in mutual women that will guide social conduct era in which the energies of people prosperity by recognising that of an individual throughout his life. and nations would be committed human beings are best defined by It must breed a culture of deep to a rising prosperity that would a humane spirit, and not their worst thought and create an environment eliminate, for the first time, the curse instincts. Our example can be its of contemplation and inner of extreme poverty. That optimism own message to a world in anxious peace. Through an open-minded has faded in the first fifteen years of need of amity. approach to the wider spectrum of this century. There is unprecedented Each of us has the right to lead ideas emanating from within, our turbulence across vast regions, a healthy, happy and productive academic institutions must become with alarming increase in regional life in India.