The central government has empowered the Army Chief to call out ‘every officer and every enrolled person’ of the Territorial Army to provide support to the regular Army. This order will remain in force for three years, the Ministry of Defence notification said.
“In exercise of the powers conferred by Rule 33 of the Territorial Army Rule 1948, the Central Government empowers Chief of the Army Staff to exercise the powers under that rule to call out every officer and every enrolled person of the Territorial Army to provide for essential guard or to be embodied for the purpose of supporting or supplementing the regular army”- a circular issued by the ministry of defence read.
The specified detail are here :
(a) Out of the existing 32 Infantry Battalions (Territorial Army), embodiment of 14 Infantry Battalions (Territorial Army) for deployment in the areas of Southern Command, Eastern Command, Western Command, Central Command, Northern Command, South Western Command, Andaman and Nicobar Command and Army Training Command (ARTRAC).
(b) The embodiment shall be ordered provided the funds are available in the budget or have been made available by re-appropriation of the internal savings in the budget. For units embodied at the behest of Ministries other than Ministry of Defence, the cost will be debited to the respective Ministries and will not be included in the budget allocation of the Ministry of Defence.
(c) This order shall remain in force for three years with effect from 10 Feb 2025 to 09 February 2028.
