*NEW DELHI*: In a major reform, Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has approvedplans to establish a training institute for soldiers to help them qualifyas commissioned officers in the Army.
“The institute will be known as Young Leaders Training Wing and is plannedto be established inside the premises of the Officers Training Academy(OTA), Chennai. It will focus on developing communication, leadership andteam-building skills in soldiers,” Army officials said.
The first batch of 200 soldiers will be trained from September 16 for aperiod of five months.
There are plans for catering to two such courses in a single year. A coreteam of 10 officers will form the instructional nucleus of the Wing.
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An internal study of the Army had found that there is an overall shortageof 41.4 per cent in the intake of soldiers as officers.
The Army has a varied intake schedule for its prospective officers andrecruiting from an available pool of qualified soldiers is one of them.
