Indian military now has 1.44 million personnel

[Shiroyama]

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, while replying to a question in the House, that the total strength of the Army as on July 1 is 12.37 lakh personnel against the authorised strength of 12.64 lakh and the total shortage is 27,864.

The current strength of the Navy is 67,228 personnel and the number of vacant positions is 16,255.

The Indian Air Force has strength of 1,39,497 personnel against the authorised strength of 1.55 lakh, she said, adding that the vacancies excluding personnel in dental and medical streams come to 59,622.

Meanwhile, she cleared that the recruitment in the armed forces is a continuous process and the government has taken a number of measures to reduce the shortages.
Civilian employees are not included in above figures.

Therefore, it is expected that the recruitment to fill up the posts will continue and the government will try to fill the vacancies as soon as possible.

https://www.odishatv.in/nation/60000-vacancies-in-armed-forces-will-it-be-filled-this-year-265927/

So 1,237,000+139,457+67,228=1.443 million.

 

[Shiroyama]

Should this be increased or decreased or kept the same?

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

This is a regressive development.We need reduce numbers and retain capability through increased technology.

 

[Shiroyama]

This is a regressive development.We need reduce numbers and retain capability through increased technology.

We need 1.5 million personnel.

 

[Willy wolly]

India has a huge population, but still like in the navy, the number of officers and sailors has decreased dramatically, old ships used to have around 200-250 personals and the new ones just need 120-150.....
A small but skilled army is what we need, even the chinese are reducing their numbers and russia already did though due to different reason....