Setting up of a new Division in the Army following the increase in its strength with the latest recruitment drive, is underway, informed sources said.
“The final touches to the new division are now being given by the defence ministry and the Army officials,” a senior defence ministry official told the Daily Mirror yesterday.
He said that during Thursday’s visit to Vavuniya, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Chief of Defence Staff Donald Perera and Army Commander Sarath Fonseka held extensive talks to wrap up the arrangements to set up the new division.
He said that a senior Brigadier will be appointed to head the new Division of several battalions which will be named ‘58 Division’. The official also said that the new proposed division will be manned by special trained men to be deployed in operational areas.
Currently, the Army is conducting a massive recruitment drive to strengthen the forces.
(http://www.dailymirror.lk/2007/06/16/news/6.asp)
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