"...The committee also expressed "surprise" that the funds for raising a mountain strike corps (some 30,000 personnel) was to be taken from the army's budget and there was no separate allocation.

"The committee are surprised to note that for raising of this Corps, no separate allocation has been made in this year's budget," the panel said...

The report added that only war wastage reserves were being utilised for raising the corps, terming this impractical..."

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