Umroi, Meghalaya: On Multilateral military exercise PRAGATI 2026, Exercise Director Col Sundeep Punia says, "Pragati, the acronym stands for Partnership of Regional Armies for Growth and Transformation in Indian Ocean Region. With this, we had the aim to create synergy, create interoperability and enhance the mutual trust amongst the friendly foreign nations. With this aim, we had planned this exercise and approximately 400 participants from 12 friendly foreign countries were here. And over last two weeks, we have got trained together, during which the focus of the exercise was on counter-insurgency operations based in semi-mountainous and jungle terrain. During this time, it was a great opportunity for all of us to share the best practices. We planned our operations and carried out detailed discussions on how to incorporate the latest technologies, the niche technology and what is the effect of this on our operations, the new TTPs, that is, techniques, tactics and procedures..."