‘No alternative to hard work and love for job’
By our Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Sept 4: “The students of the Northeast are talented but
they get little opportunity to groom themselves. However, with the
setting up of IIT-Guwahati, this problem has been solved to a great
extent,” said Air Marshal Pranab Kumar Barbora, Vice Chief of the Air
Staff, today while addressing Techniche, the annual techno-management
festival of IIT-Guwahati currently under way at North Guwahati with over
6,000 participants. The festival will conclude on September 5.
The Air Marshal said: “There is no alternative to hard work and love
for job. If the students of the Northeast are to make strides on all
fronts, they have to undertake hard work. They have to go out of the
State and see the world,” he said. On the evolution of the Indian Air
Force (IAF) right from the time of Independence, the Air Marshal
explained the functioning of the air force and its operational and
functional commands. He shared with the students his knowledge of
fighter and multi-role combat aircraft; transport, training and early
warning aircraft; helicopters and unmanned air vehicles in the IAF
fleet. He also showed video clips of rescue and relief operations
carried out by IAF personnel during natural disasters.
Air Marshal Barbora was involved in the formation of the first Jaguar
squadron, induction of the air combat simulator into the IAF (first of
its kind in Asia), commencement of night operations by helicopters and
transport aircraft in the treacherous terrain of Arunachal Pradesh, and
restarting of air maintenance with fixed aircraft after 43 years at DBO
in the northern sector, the highest airfield in the world. His address
was followed by a lively interactive session with students. The Air
Marshal explained to the students the prospects of joining the IAF.
Being born and brought up in Shillong, he encouraged the people of the
Northeast to shun complacency and explore the whole world for the
progress of the Northeast.
(The Sentinel,05.09.2010)
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