Saturday, June 12, 2010

Another not so correct decision by Govt. of India

I am so shocked to know the views of people on Govt. of India's (likely) decision of not summoning the Army to fight against Naxals.What people are concerned about is that it's not Army's job to tackle the Naxal problem but rather since it's internal aggression so it must be taken care of by the concerned state Police and paramilitary forces.
No offence to anyone,but may I ask why has the demand for summoning the Army to help the local police and the paramilitary forces been made in the first place.Folks, this is because the established institutions are finding themselves incapable to deal with the Naxalites.Hence, the request by home ministry.
Secondly, they say that the Army is not designed for operations against Naxals, but could anyone tell me is it not the foremost duty of any Army personnel to save the common man from being killed by enemy, irrespective of the threat being external or internal ? Look, nowhere do I contradict the fact that Army's main job is to guard the country against external aggression,all I'm saying is that would you prefer the Army to sit and wait until its services are required against external aggression rather than deal with the menace which is right on the top of your head ? At this point, I'd also like to clarify that I absolutely do not intend to mean that the Army's presence at any of the areas of their current deployment around the country can be afforded to be compromised by removing them from there.Again,all I'm saying is that it could be reduced slightly so that some of the best trained soldiers could come handy against Naxals in affected zones and meanwhile paramilitary troops (untrained for jungle warfare) which are being sent to these areas can be sent to their zones in their place.I guess that's fair enough.This would in no way compromise the national security and at the same time trained soldiers would be a big help to the jawans of various agencies already present there.
One more thing, I'd like to add is that it is no hidden fact the Army jawans are not only more capable than paramilitary ones but also better trained and further more disciplined.So even just an Army Officer in-charge would be a big help to the police and jawans there and his experience would come handy in various situations beyond any doubt.
Finally, to the last point that I came across, about training paramilitary troops and then deploying them in affected zones, I'd like to remind that this problem has already gotten huge and they (Naxals) are gaining more strength with each day passing.So we don't actually have a single day to lose and the need of the hour is dealing with iron fist with them.Hope you get the point.And side by side this training thing can continue and as more paramilitary and police jawans complete training they can replace the Army soldiers from these zones (who can get back to their original zones of services then).
And yes, one point where I agree to with them without any ifs and buts is that political will and corruption free governance is required to kill the very roots of the problem since this is what gave birth to this problem at first place.And we all know the only possible mechanism to achieve this is to have rapid development of these areas.Until this is ensured,no amount of military actions would suffice...

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