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INTERVIEW
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‘This Academy Will Help In Bridging The Deficiency In The Officer Cadre To A Considerable Extent’
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Commandant, Officers Training Academy, Gaya, Lt Gen. Vijai Sharma |
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Commandant,Officers Training Academ, Gaya, Lt Gen.Vijai Sharma
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What is your vision for the academy as the first Commandant of OTA (Officers Training Academy), Gaya?
First of all, I would like to say that it is a matter of great honour for me to
be the first commandant of the academy at Gaya because to raise an academy is a
different cup of tea all together, and it is a lifelong association with the
academy. You are part of the pioneer team which is helping you raise the
academy. My vision is to have a world class pre commissioned training academy
that moulds GC’s (Gentlemen Cadets) into professionally competent young officers
with highest intellectual, physical and moral fibre. With this, I have two major
focus areas. First is to create infrastructure and facilities that can help
gentlemen cadets in their all round development with vision into the future as
to how things will look 10 to 15 years from now. Second is to structure training
curriculum of GC’s and to put in place SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedure), |
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that facilitates their growth and development and gives them a healthy environment to train and develop into military leaders, capable of leading men both in war and peace. And also, since it is the youngest academy, I would also like it to become not only the best academy in the country but to have world class standards too.
The training given to the GC’s is based on the platoon commander’s role. Has there been any change in the training pattern or is it the same?
You see, in battle, a platoon commander is always in the forefront with the men. More so, the basic infantry tactics is executed at the platoon level. The platoon commander is thus at the absolute cutting edge of the army, as action is mainly on platoon and section level. Therefore, it is of prime importance that a GC comprehends and imbibes the necessary skills and nitty-gritty of being a platoon commander. As all pre-commission training of the Indian Army is standardised by ARTRAC (Army Training Command), the training curriculum and cannons of training at OTA, Gaya, are the same as followed at IMA (Indian Military Academy), Dehradun, and OTA, Chennai. Though minor modifications keeping the type of entries and terrain is their but otherwise, it is broadly the same.
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