{"id":53,"date":"2016-02-08T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sibha.online\/wprandom\/2016\/02\/08\/a-tale-of-two-chiefs\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T07:51:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T07:51:58","slug":"a-tale-of-two-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2016\/02\/08\/a-tale-of-two-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of two Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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           It was circa 1990, during the address to officers by the COAS at DSSC Wellington, one infantry officer had the temerity to suggest that  something be done about providing better opportunities to infantry officers for nomination to attend DSSC Course at Wellington. He further explained that the Staff Course had become so important for promotion to higher ranks and that infantry officers did not get time to study due to operational commitments.<\/p>\n

        Well, the Chief went ballistic; some raw nerve had been touched. He himself was a gunner  and  an air op officer  . When he took over as the  Chief,  a leading National daily , had wondered as to how a battle hardened  Force like the Indian Army had thrown up a Chief without any battle experience. The General was known for his  strategic thinking rather than for soldiering. Mandal Commission was the then  rage, across the country. He thundered, \u201cI do not want mandalization in Army, we cannot have a quota system for infantry\u201d  .  After a long, seemingly never ending  diatribe he declared \u201c we have a fair system and anyone can reach the higher ranks\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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Recently, in circa 2015, the present Chief, during his visit to Mhow, addressed the officers in the Station. In the course of his talk, he disclosed, \u201c……. I am a Non-psc officer , and I have reached where I am through sheer soldiering. We do have a fair system in the Army …..\u201d<\/div>\n

He happens to be the first non-psc Chief. Well, we have come a full circle.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

           It was circa 1990, during the address to officers by the COAS at DSSC Wellington, one infantry officer had the temerity to suggest that  something be done about providing better opportunities to infantry officers for nomination to attend DSSC Course at Wellington. He further explained that the Staff Course had become so important for … Continue reading “A Tale of two Chiefs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}