New Delhi, July 10: In the backdrop of the lingering border row in eastern Ladakh, the Army has upscaled its efforts to impart Chinese language training to its personnel as part of the overall strategy to ramp up surveillance along the over 3,400-km Line of Actual Control.
A slew of measures has been undertaken to improve its in-house Mandarin expertise with an aim to empower junior and senior commanders to engage with Chinese military personnel as and when the situation demands, sources in the security establishment said on Sunday.
On Saturday, the Army issued a notification for recruiting Mandarin language experts into the Territorial Army. The source said various Mandarin language courses are being run at the language schools at the Northern, Eastern and Central Commands.
The Indian Army is also using Artificial Intelligence-based solutions for the translation of various scripts or literature from the Mandarin language. “With improved Mandarin skills, Indian Army personnel will be better empowered to convey their points in a much more cogent manner,” said one of the sources.
As per inputs, the Army now has a significant pool of Mandarin-qualified personnel drawn from all ranks, including officers and junior commissioned officers.
“With recalibration of the Indian Army’s strategic outlook towards Northern borders, the Indian Army has upscaled its Chinese language training and has synergistically enmeshed appropriate scaling of Chinese linguists within its overall strategy,” said another source. (PTI)
