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:''This article is about the military unit. For the youth movement in Sikkim, see The Bharat Scouts and Guides.'' The Sikkim Scouts is a regiment of the Indian Army based in and recruited from the state of Sikkim, raised in 2013 and made operational in 2015. It was formed along the lines of the Ladakh Scouts and Arunachal Scouts, as it is recruited from a mountainous border area and is dedicated to border defence and mountain warfare. == History == Sikkim became a state of India in 1975, after having been a British and then Indian protectorate for nearly a century. Even as a protectorate, Indian troops were stationed in Sikkim, because of the area's important role as a buffer zone against China, with which it shares a border.〔 China did not clearly recognize Sikkim as an Indian state until the 2000s, and continues to lay claim to what India refers to as the northernmost "Finger Area" of Sikkim.〔 The Sino-Indian War of 1962 saw some fighting on the Sikkimese border and from 1965 to 1967, Indian and Chinese forces clashed on the border, notably during the 1967 Chola incident.〔 More recently, there were small incursions and skirmishes around 2008. Several units of the Indian Army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police are stationed in Sikkim . Historically, these troops have been drawn from other parts of India, and not from the local population.〔〔 Pawan Kumar Chamling, Chief Minister of Sikkim from the Sikkim Democratic Front, requested of the Ministry of Defence that the Sikkim Scouts regiment be formed, to provide positions for young men in Sikkim and since all other Himalayan border states had similar forces. (The Ladakh Scouts were formed in 1963, and the Arunachal Scouts in 2010, while other Himalayan states have dedicated border security battalions in regular regiments such as the Kumaon Regiment.) The ministry and the Indian Army supported Chamling's proposal, as it was in line with India's "sons of soil" policy to bolster her defence units by integrating locals into them, and on 6 December 2012, the proposal was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security. Officials stated at the time that the regiment would be formally established in mid-2015, after the initial recruits had been raised and trained. The raising of the regiment was expected to cost some Rs 32.5 crore (US$5 million). The cost of maintaining the regiment was projected to be a slightly greater amount per year.〔 During March 2013, the first recruiting drives for the new regiment were held in Sikkim, which were expected to enroll roughly 500 candidates.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Sikkim: Recruitment rally for local infantry force in March )〕 Because of the popularity of tattoos among Sikkimese men, many candidates had to be rejected; the Ministry of Defence had issued a policy banning tattoos (other than religious symbols and names) for new recruits to the Indian military in 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= 200 candidates with tattoos rejected for Sikkim Scouts )〕 The regiment was presented with a flag, and formally raised, by Army Vice Chief S. K. Singh at Lucknow on 24 May 2013. At the time, there were 319 Sikkimese recruits in the regiment, and a cadre from Gorkha regiments assembled to train the recruits.〔 The process of recruiting and training the regiment was completed in mid-2015.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sikkim Scouts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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