No regiment-specific display, brigadiers and generals don common uniform | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Army brigadiers and generals on Tuesday shed all their distinctive regiment-specific accoutrements, lanyards and headgear, like Gorkha hats or maroon berets, with their dark olive-green uniforms. Instead, they donned standardised accoutrements, irrespective of their parent cadres, regiments or appointments.

The Army headquarters had directed this “uniformity in uniform”, without any display of regimental affiliations, to promote and strengthen a common identity and approach in service matters among senior officers from August 1 onwards, as was reported by TOI in early-May.
Consequently, the Army chief, around 80 Lt-generals, 300 major generals and 1,200 brigadiers on Tuesday wore the same dark olive-green berets (or black peak caps), anodised brass rank badges, scarlet gorget patches, black leather belts with the Indian Army logo instead of their regimental ones and the like with their uniforms. They also discarded their lanyards, different colours of which are worn by different regiments.

There, however, is no change in the uniforms of junior officers from lieutenants to colonels, who will continue to wear their different types of accoutrements.