PM to address top military leadership; jawans to participate for 1st time

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a conference of the county’s top military leadership in Gujarat’s Kevadia on Saturday, which will also see the participation of jawans and junior commissioned officers (JCOs) for the first time, senior officials said.

They said the jawans and JCOs will be attending specific sessions related to human resource issues during the three-day Combined Commanders’ Conference that began on Thursday.

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, Army Chief General M M Naravane, Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria, Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh and senior officials of the defence ministry and the armed forces will attend the conference.

The prime minister is expected to deliver his address on the last day of the conference on Saturday, the officials said.