COAS Eastern Command visit by Gen Dhiraj Seth reviews Trishakti and Spear Corps

The COAS Eastern Command visit by Gen Dhiraj Seth ran across 14 and 15 July, carrying the Chief of the Army Staff from the Trishakti Corps in the Siliguri Corridor to the Spear Corps in the North East. He went to assess the prevailing security situation and the operational preparedness of formations.

It is his second command tour inside ten days.

Gen Seth spent 07 to 09 July on his first tour of Northern Command as Chief, working the Line of Control grid from Badamibagh down to Poonch. Eastern Command is next, and the sequence tracks the two frontiers the Army holds at once.

Trishakti Corps

At the Trishakti Corps, the General Officer Commanding briefed the COAS on operational deployments, the surveillance architecture and current security dynamics. The formation, headquartered at Sukna, holds Sikkim and the ground either side of the Siliguri Corridor. Gen Seth also went through what the Corps is doing on technology absorption, capability enhancement and force modernisation.

Those three are his own headings, not the formation's. They have followed him from Udhampur.

Bengdubi

On 15 July the COAS visited Bengdubi Military Station, near Siliguri, where he assessed regional security arrangements and reviewed operational logistics. Bengdubi is a sustainment node rather than a fighting formation, which is the point of stopping there. The corridor is narrow and everything moving east of it moves through stations like this one.

Spear Corps

Gen Seth then went to the Spear Corps and evaluated its operational preparedness.

He was briefed on the evolving operational environment, inter-agency coordination and the measures being taken to further enhance combat readiness. The Corps, based at Rangapahar in Dimapur, carries a mandate that mixes conventional watch with a counter-insurgency and inter-agency load, and the briefing reflected that split. He also reviewed community outreach initiatives aimed at promoting peace, stability and development across the North East.

COAS Eastern Command visit puts VIJAY in front of the troops

Interacting with commanders and troops, Gen Seth outlined his vision of VIJAY, founded on vigilance, innovation, jointness, Aatmanirbharta and Yodha First. He set the acronym out on 30 June, hours after he took over as the 31st Chief of the Army Staff, and it has travelled with him to every formation since.

He emphasised that these principles would enable the Indian Army to remain agile, adaptive and future-ready while contributing to the Viksit Bharat Vision 2047. The formulation has now been put in front of troops on both the northern and the eastern fronts inside a fortnight.

Commendation

The COAS commended all ranks for their professionalism, high morale, operational excellence and unwavering commitment while serving under challenging conditions.

Eastern Command is headquartered at Fort William in Kolkata and holds the Line of Actual Control in the north alongside the frontier with Bangladesh and Myanmar to the south and east. The Trishakti Corps and the Spear Corps sit on either side of that split.