Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagging-off SANJAY from South Block in New Delhi today.
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged off the Battlefield Surveillance System (BSS), SANJAY, from the South Block, which houses the Ministry of Defence, today.
‘SANJAY’ is an automated system that integrates the inputs from all ground and aerial battlefield sensors. It processes all inputs to confirm their veracity, prevent duplication, and fuse them to produce a common surveillance picture of the battlefield over a secured Army Data Network and Satellite Communication Network.
The Battlefield Surveillance System has been indigenously developed by the Indian Army and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and will be inducted to all operational Brigades, Divisions and Corps of the Indian Army in three phases with effect from March to October 2025, which has been declared as ‘Year of Reforms’ in the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This system has been developed under the Buy (Indian) category at a cost of Rs 2,402 crore.
“It will enhance battlefield transparency and transform the future battlefield through a Centralised Web Application which will provide inputs to Command and Army Headquarters, and the Indian Army Decision Support System,” the Defence Ministry stated.
SANJAY is equipped with state-of-the-art sensors and cutting-edge analytics. It will monitor the vast land borders, prevent intrusions, and assess situations with “unparalleled” accuracy, to become a force multiplier in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. This would enable commanders to operate in both conventional and sub-conventional operations in a Network-Centric Environment. “Its induction will be an extraordinary leap towards data and network centricity in the Indian Army,” the Ministry stated.
Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh, Secretary (Defence Production) Sanjeev Kumar, Chairman & Managing Director of BEL, Manoj Jain, and other senior officials of the Ministry of Defence and BEL were present during the flagging-off ceremony.
– global bihari bureau
