Dimapur: A third battalion of the Ranikhet based Naga Regiment would be raised with 50 per cent of the recruitment to comprise Naga boys like the existing two battalions, which has earned accolades during the Kargil war.
Stating this, GoC of the armys 3 Corps Lt Gen N K Singh told newsmen yesterday that in the recent past the army raised two infantry battalions of Territorial Army, one
exclusively with Naga boys and another with youths recruited from the North-east.
He said there was tremendous enthusiasm among the youth of the region to join the armed forces and a large number of them had joined paramilitary forces in recent years.
The general also said that the ministry has taken a decision to raise an ecological battalion in the region on the lines of the one in Himachal Pradesh, but a final decision has not been taken on how and where it would be raised and the nature of it work. "But it is in the pipeline."
With recent addition of Dibrugarh based 2 Mountain Division, the 3 Corps now look after security of Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, south Assam and parts of Arunachal
Pradesh making it countrys largest Corps in terms of geography.
Lt Gen Singh claimed there was marked improvement in law and order in all states under his jurisdiction except some trouble in Manipur, saying security forces and the state
government were working to restore normalcy in Imphal valley.
Bureau Report
