Indian Army seeks Mandarin-trained personnel

New Delhi, July 11: The Indian Army has received approvals to induct Mandarin-trained personnel into the Territorial Army. Following this, the Army has issued a notification inviting applications for Mandarin experts who will be able properly to communicate with the Chinese military along the Line of Actual Control.

 

According to the notification, the army requires Mandarin experts for understanding the version of events presented by the People Liberation Army (PLA) at “Corps Commander level talks, Flag meetings, Joint Exercises, Border Personnel Meetings and others”. With improved Mandarin skills, Indian Army personnel will be better empowered to convey their points in a much more cogent manner.

 

 

Chinese language experts are a functional requirement at tactical level and are required for providing analysis at the operational and strategic level while catering for futuristic needs and maintaining adequate redundancy at all levels. The Armed Forces has increased its Chinese language training due to strategic outlook toward Northern borders and has synergistically enmeshed appropriate scaling of Chinese linguists within its overall strategy.

 

 

The Indian Army has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU), Central University of Gujarat (CUG), Shiv Nadar University (SNU) for imparting Mandarin proficiency to its personnel. Simultaneously, in-house efforts include increasing the vacancies at the Army's Training School at Pachamari and the School of Foreign Languages, Delhi.

 

Proficiency level testing of trained soldiers is being conducted through civilian institutes like Langma School of Languages, New Delhi to assess the competence level of linguists as per international standards.

 

Apart from these, various Mandarin language courses are being run at the Language Schools at the Northern, Eastern and Central Command. Indian Army is also using Artificial Intelligence-based solutions for the translation of various scripts or literature. As per inputs, the Indian Army now has a significant pool of Mandarin-qualified personnel drawn from all ranks i.e Officers, JCOs and NCOs.