{"id":361768,"date":"2026-04-29T18:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=361768"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:43:19","slug":"exercise-pragati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/exercise-pragati\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise \u2018Pragati\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The Indian Army announced hosting 11 friendly countries for the inaugural multilateral Exercise \u2018Pragati\u2019 at Umroi, Meghalaya.<\/p>\n<h2>About Exercise \u2018Pragati\u2019<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_361781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-361781\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-361781\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-DD-News-3.jpg?resize=300%2C173&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Exercise \u2018Pragati\u2019\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-DD-News-3.jpg?resize=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-DD-News-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C591&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-DD-News-3.jpg?resize=768%2C443&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Source-DD-News-3.jpg?w=1515&amp;ssl=1 1515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-361781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; DD News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Pragati (<strong>Partnership of Regional Armies for Growth and Transformation in the Indian Ocean Region<\/strong>) is a <strong>multilateral military exercise<\/strong> aimed at cooperation and capability building among regional armies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hosted by:<\/strong> It is hosted <strong>by the Indian Army<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: The exercise will be <strong>held at the Foreign Training Node in Umroi, Meghalaya.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Participants<\/strong>: It will include <strong>military delegations and troops from 11 friendly foreign countries<\/strong> across <strong>Asia, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Edition<\/strong> : It is the <strong>inaugural edition<\/strong> of the exercise.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong>: The exercise aims to strengthen defence cooperation, enhance interoperability, and build mutual trustamong participating nations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key aspect:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joint training focus<\/strong>: The exercise will include drills in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism environments, including small-unit tactics and surveillance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operational learning:<\/strong> It will involve lectures and workshops on India\u2019s doctrine, command structures, and counter-insurgency experience.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Collaborative framework:<\/strong> It reflects a shift to multilateral consortium-style training with standardised procedures and shared tactical understanding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>: It highlights India\u2019s effort to act as a regional security mentor and strengthen defence diplomacy and collective security<span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Indian Army announced hosting 11 friendly countries for the inaugural multilateral Exercise \u2018Pragati\u2019 at Umroi, Meghalaya. About Exercise \u2018Pragati\u2019 Pragati (Partnership of Regional Armies for Growth and Transformation in the Indian Ocean Region) is a multilateral military exercise aimed at cooperation and capability building among regional armies. Hosted by: It is hosted by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/exercise-pragati\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exercise \u2018Pragati\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11204,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-361768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-defence-exercises","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}