This yr, the parade will likely be held underneath the Command of Military’s ’Central Command.
New Delhi:
The Indian Military will have a good time the 76th Military Day with a grand parade in Uttar Pradesh’s capital metropolis, Lucknow, at the moment. The Military Day parade has been moved out of Delhi for the second consecutive yr. Final yr, the parade befell at Bengaluru’s MED & Centre’s Parade Floor.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Governor Anandi Ben Patel will likely be in attendance as chief friends on the parade floor in Lucknow.
Why Military Day Is Celebrated?
Military Day is widely known yearly on January 15 to commemorate the event when Basic (Later Discipline Marshal) KM Cariappa took cost of the Indian Military from Basic Sir Francis Roy Bucher in 1949 and have become the first-ever Indian to command the Military in its lengthy, wealthy historical past. Basic Sir Francis Roy Bucher was the final British-serving chief of the Indian Military.
Discipline Marshal KM Cariappa, often known as ’Kipper’, acquired his King’s Fee in 1919 and was a part of the primary group of Indian cadets on the Royal Navy School in Sandhurst, UK. Discipline Marshal Cariappa was the primary Indian to attend the Workers School in Quetta and the primary Indian to command a Batallion. In 1942, he raised the seventh Rajput Machine Gun Batallion, later often known as 17 Rajput. In 1986, KM Cariappa was conferred with the rank of Discipline Marshal. He died on the age of 94 in 1993.
Discipline Marshal Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, OBE
From 1949 until 2022, the Military Day parade was organised on the Cariappa Parade Floor within the Delhi Cantonment. The Chief of Military Workers evaluations the marching contingents who additionally participate within the Republic Day Parade yearly.
This yr, the parade will likely be held underneath the Command of Military’s ’Central Command, which is headquartered in Lucknow. Central Command is without doubt one of the seven operational instructions of the Indian Military. Final yr, the Southern Command was answerable for the parade in Bengaluru.
Grand Spectacle In Lucknow
The grand spectacle will happen on the parade floor of the 11 Gorkha Rifles Regimental Centre in Lucknow underneath the command of Main Basic Salil Seth. Six marching contingents from the military’s totally different regiments, a army band comprising 5 regimental brass bands and three pipe bands will take part.
fiftieth (Impartial) Parachute Brigade, Sikh Mild Infantry, Jat Regiment, Garhwal Rifles, Bengal Engineer Group and the Military Air Defence contingent march down the parade floor.
The 5 regimental brass/army bands are – Punjab Regiment Centre, Grenadier Regimental Centre, Bihar Regiment Centre, Sikh Mild Regiment Centre, Kumaon Regimental Centre and SIKH Regimental Centre.
The 5 regimental pipe bands are the SIKH Regiment Centre, SIKH LI Regiment Centre, JAT Regiment Centre, KUMAON Regimental Centre and 1 Sign Coaching Centre.
Military chief Basic Manoj Pande will assessment the parade and current gallantry awards, which will likely be adopted by a daring motorbike show by the Military Service Corps (ASC) Tornadoes, a skydiving show by the Paratroopers, daredevil jumps, and a fly previous by of helicopters of the Military Aviation Corps.
Use Of AI
This yr’s Military Day parade will likely be particular due to the usage of Synthetic Intelligence to pick out the ’Greatest Marching Contingent’.
”Synthetic Intelligence is getting used for the primary time to determine one of the best marching contingent,” Main Basic Salil Seth stated.
”All marching contingents do drills however there’s a sample of doing it — elevating your fingers and legs to a sure degree and doing all your motion with the weapon inside a sure timeframe. We are going to seize the person motion with a digicam after which the pc software program utilizing the AI will give marks for each motion. This may also be supervised by people. We have now completed two to a few practices,” the officer added.