Integration of tri-services to advance seamlessly: Rajnath Singh

Integration of the armed forces to enhance their effectiveness and reshape the conduct of future operations will progress seamlessly, and achieving this target will be a top priority for the government, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Tuesday, while paying tribute to India’s first chief of defence staff General Bipin Rawat and 12 others killed last week in a chopper crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu. Integration of the armed forces to enhance their effectiveness and reshape the conduct of future operations will progress seamlessly, defence minister Rajnath Singh said. The current theaterisation model to enhance tri-service synergy seeks to set up four integrated commands – two land-centric theatres, an air defence command, and a maritime theatre command. Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane became the senior-most military officer in the country after Rawat’s demise.