Our Correspondent

Jammu, September 27

The North Tech Symposium-2019, an annual event organised under the aegis of the Northern Command Headquarters, was inaugurated by Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, GOC-in-C, Northern Command, on Friday.

The event based on the theme, “Empowering northern theatre with contemporary technologies to meet dynamic operational challenges” had active participation from nearly 100 defence companies, including MSMEs, DPSU and Simulator Development Division.

The symposium served to showcase cutting-edge technologies and innovative products providing solutions to complex challenges faced by the security forces in the Northern Command and also acted as an ideal platform for mutual exchange of ideas between the defence industry and the Army.

The technologies and products on display covered a wide canvas, prominent being surveillance and situational awareness, tactical mobility, firepower, soldier, force protection, communications, combat medical, robotics, simulators, training aids and many others.

The symposium achieved great success in building an Army and industry relationship with the common objective of developing customised and effective solutions for the Army and progress towards self-reliance in the defence industry to align with the government initiative of Make in India.