Training to Foreign Military Personnel
The government has received requests from several countries for providing counter insurgency / counter terrorism training to their military personnel. Amongst other training courses, Indian Army has provided counter-insurgency/counter-terrorism training to individual officers as well as groups from friendly foreign countries at the Counter Insurgency & Jungle Warfare (CIJW) School, Vairangate, Mizoram.
Requests for training of personnel in Counter Insurgency / Counter Terrorism related courses of Indian Army during training year 2011-2012 have been received from the following 17 Friendly Foreign Countries:-
Afghanistan, Botswana, Bhutan, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, UK and USA.
Besides allocating course vacancies on Counter Insurgency / Counter Terrorism, Indian Army also conducts Group Training of the personnel of following Friendly Foreign Countries in India :-
Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Yemen and Bangladesh
There is no proposal at present before the government to impart such training abroad.
This information was given by Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in a written reply to Shri Mahabal Mishra and Shri Vishwa Mohan Kumar in Lok Sabha today.
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