Chief of the Army Staff General Dhiraj Seth will undertake a three-day official visit to Nepal from August 17 to 19 to further strengthen defence cooperation and military-to-military ties between India and Nepal.
During the visit, General Seth will engage with senior military and civilian leadership and discuss issues of mutual interest between the two countries.
On August 17, the Army Chief will lay a wreath at the Army Pavilion in Tundikhel and receive a Guard of Honour at the Nepali Army Headquarters. He will hold talks with his Nepali counterpart and will also be briefed by the Director General Military Operations of the Nepali Army.
General Seth will later attend an investiture ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan in Kathmandu, where President of Nepal Ram Chandra Paudel will confer upon him the honorary rank of General of the Nepali Army.
The conferment of the honorary rank is part of the longstanding tradition between the Indian and Nepali armies, reflecting the close military ties between the two countries.
On August 18, General Seth will address student officers of the Army Command and Staff Course at Shivapuri. He will also interact with instructors and foreign student officers and meet senior dignitaries of Nepal to discuss matters of mutual interest.
On August 19, the Army Chief will attend an Ex-Servicemen Rally in Pokhara, where he will felicitate Veer Naris and gallantry awardees and interact with Indian Army veterans before returning to India.
India and Nepal share longstanding historical, social and cultural ties, often described as the ‘Roti Beti Ka Rishta’. The Janakpur-Ayodhya and Lumbini-Bodhgaya links further reflect the close civilisational ties between the two countries.
