Question : TRAINING OF DEFENCE PERSONNEL

(a) whether many foreign countries have sent their defence personnel for training in India; and

(b) if so, the details thereof along with the total number of such defence personnel trained during the last three years?

MINISTER OF DEFENCE (SHRI MANOHAR PARRIKAR)

(a) Yes, Madam. Training exchanges are conducted between Armed Forces personnel of India and vari- ous foreign countries.

(b) The list of the foreign countries which have sent their defence personnel for training in India is placed at Annexure ‘A’. The details of training imparted to defence personnel of foreign countries during the last three years are as follows:

 
 Training Year	No. of Trainees (1st July to 30th June) 
 2012-13	3711 2013-14	3897 2014-15#	4871 # Projected figure till 30th June 2015. 
 
 ANNEXURE ‘A’ REFERRED IN THE REPLY GIVEN IN PART (b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5100 FOR ANSWER ON 24.4.2015 
 
 List of Foreign Countries 
 Defence Personnel from following 65 Friendly Foreign Countries have attended training in India during last 3 years: 
 
 Ser	Country	Ser	Country	Ser	Country 
 1.	Afghanistan	24.	Lebanon	47.	Singapore 2.	Australia	25.	Lesotho	48.	South Africa 3.	Bangladesh	26.	Malaysia	49.	Sri Lanka 4.	Benin	27.	Maldives	50.	Sudan 5.	Brunei	28.	Mauritius	51.	Senegal 6.	Bhutan	29.	Mongolia	52.	Tajikistan 7.	Botswana	30.	Myanmar	53.	Tanzania 8.	Cambodia	31.	Mozambique	54.	Thailand 9.	Cameroon	32.	Namibia	55.	Timor Leste 10.	Canada	33.	Nepal	56.	Tonga 11.	China	34.	Netherland	57.	Turkey 12.	DPRK	35.	Niger	58.	Turkmenistan 13.	Djibouti	36.	Nigeria	59.	Uganda 14.	Egypt	37.	Oman	60.	UK 15.	Ethiopia	38.	Palestine	61.	USA 16.	Fiji	39.	Papua New	62.	Uzbekistan	Guinea 17.	Ghana	40.	Peru	63.	UAE 18.	Indonesia	41.	Philippines	64.	Vietnam 19.	Japan	42.	Qatar	65.	Yemen 20.	Kazakhstan	43.	ROK (South Korea) 21.	Kenya	44.	Rwanda 22.	Kyrgyzstan	45.	Saudi Arabia 23.	Laos PDR	46.	Seychelles