Addressing about a 1,000 officers of various ranks at the Army Headquarters a day after assuming the office, Rana unveiled short-term, mid-term and long term plans on effective administration, timely career developments of staff and advancement in international relation.[break]
He said he would start his term by interacting with soldiers serving in remote districts and asked them to be more responsive and flexible to meet the vision during his term. He said the 10-year master plan had been forwarded to the government and its implementation will begin once it recieves the official nod.
A press statement issued by NA´s Directorate of Public Relations (DPR) said Rana requested the army to focus on nation building process despite the challenges ahead. “I believe that I will continue to reccieve your support in realizing the common goals of protecting the country and the people and completion of tasks beneficial for the army," Rana said. "Interest of Nepal, Nepali people and the Nepali Army will be my only goal."
CoAS Rana assured to embark on reform process for flexible, responsive and adaptive structure of the organization by reviewing existing security policy and principles at the earliest. He also focused on ending the integration of Maoists combatants according to the verdict of the people and the constitutional boundary, and create an environment for an inclusive army with women-friendly structures.
Pointing out to the increasing challenges in security sectors, Rana said, “description of national security and conflicts have been changing and we need to revise our traditional description of conflict as human security has become ever more challenging.”
He also announced his intentions to develop college of combat and unified army training center in to "All Arms Battle School" and begin the process to establish National Defense University. “We need to develop the administrative and logistic system for both war and peace," Rana said. "The current professional career development process will be reviewed and career development based on ´meritocracy´ will be implemented immediately."
“The lack in mutual trust and confidence between commanders and lower ranked soldiers was because of the weak leadership, so we need to find out a better way to address this problem,” he clarified.
He also focused on the development and promotions of cottage industry and review of welfare policies and raise the living standard of the army personnel and upgrades in the health, education standards.
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