Ablaze in a Blizzard

The Command Report-3 Preparation for war is a cotinuous process.Every unit big or small practices their roll continuously and the ultimate real war will also be like an excercise. In ths way even Army commands conduct excercise. It will be very big roughly 50-60,000 troops taking part. Such excercise will require elaborate arrangements including demarcation of international border etc. When such excecise is ordered quite a few units will be taken off pposing forces and will be used for making arrangements for the imaginery war.

During Ganesan'stennure there was one such great excercise coducted by western command. In that Ganesans sub unit was taken off from the opposing forces and was asked to prepare an imaginery international border between two forces Red and Blue. The works involves making a track for about 5 Km, constructing 3-4 bridges including a very big 300m bridge acroos River Beas. Even though the water will be flowing 80-100 m wide the sandy bed will stretch 300m. The enemy forces who is cotrolling the Headworks on upstream side will flood the river if required. Taking all these into cosideration Ganesan moved his sub unit 2 months before start of the war(?) to the imaginery border. All Engineering machineries and all Bridging equipments were dumped at Ganesan's disposal. A great work was executed as Ganesan had first hand war experience in 1965 and 1971. The road work was named as National Highway no.56 and all posters as it appeared in any highway was placed. The bridges were named in honour of the troops constucted as "Charlie Crossing"(C Platoon)" Brravo Bridge" (B Platoon) etc. The River Beas bridge was named "Falana Dimkhana"Bridge as almost all engineering bridging eqpmts were used there.in the entire srtetch a number of boards were kept, "Balvinders Boys are here.Bash on Regardless. '"( The CO name was Balwinder singh.)

The war started. Troops were moving up and down. Every time they enter the new road they will communicate as "we are now entering National Highway 56" We are now at "Falana Dimkhana Bridge" etc The Army Commander Lt.Gen K.S.Krishna Rao came arround and stood at the Beas Bridge site. He called the Chief Engineer and asked him who contructed the Bridge. Ganesan was introduced to Gen Rao. The General asked Ganesan what is the meaning of this. Sir as this Bridge cananot be named in any way is named as "Something like"Gen laughed and and ordered all officers(about 600)to cross the bridge while coming for summing up. He specially appreciated Ganesan's work and congratulated in open. Contd....