User:Buckshot06/List of units and formations of the Indian Army
The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) directs the army from Army Headquarters in New Delhi.
The army has six operational commands and one training command.[1] Each command is headed by a general officer commanding-in-chief with the rank of Lieutenant General. Each command directly reports to Army HQ in New Delhi. These commands are given below in order of creation, with location (city) and commanders listed. There is also the Army Training Command (ARTRAC). Besides these, army officers may head tri-service commands such as the Strategic Forces Command and Andaman and Nicobar Command, as well as institutions such as the Integrated Defence Staff.
The troops are organized into 40 Divisions in 14 Corps.[2]
Principal Staff Officers at Headquarters, Indian Army
| Post | Current Holder |
|---|---|
| Chief of the Army Staff | General Manoj Mukund Naravane PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC |
| Vice Chief of Army Staff | Lieutenant General Satinder Kumar Saini AVSM,YSM,VSM |
| Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Information Systems & Training) | Lieutenant General Saranjit Singh UYSM,YSM |
| Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Planning & Systems) | Lieutenant General Sudharshan Shrikant Hasabnis PVSM, VSM, ADC[3] |
| Adjutant General | Lieutenant General Arvind Dutta PVSM,AVSM,YSM[4] |
| Military Secretary | Lieutenant General Anil Kumar Bhatt UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM[5] |
| Master General of Ordnance | Lieutenant General S K Upadhya PVSM,AVSM,SM,VSM[6] |
| Engineer-in-Chief | Lieutenant General S K Shrivastava PVSM,AVSM,ADC[7] |
| Quartermaster General | Lieutenant General Gopal R
UYSM,AVSM,SM[8] |
Command structure
IISS 2017 reports the Army's independent manoeuvre brigades number eight (armoured); two (mechanised); seven (infantry); two (mountain) plus 50 Parachute Brigade, along with the three artillery divisions, four engineer brigades, and eight air defence brigades.[1]
In addition to 10 Artillery Brigade, the headquarters of 7 Artillery Brigade was located in Ferozpur, Punjab in June 2007;[9] 8 Artillery Brigade was identified as Maj Gen Lakhwinder Singh was its General Officer Commanding during the Kargil War,[10] and 9 Artillery Brigade was identified when the Brigade Commander presided over a Court of Inquiry at Meerut into the reported fathering of around a dozen children by members of 6th Battalion, Sikh Regiment, 37 Brigade, 9th Infantry Division when the battalion was posted to MONUC in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008.[11] The report also indicated that Indian servicemen had "exchanged food and information for gold with Rwandan rebels in ..North Kivu."
| Name | Headquarters | Formation Commander | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headquarters, Indian Army | New Delhi | ||
| 50th Independent Parachute Brigade | Agra | ||
| Central Command | Lucknow | Lieutenant General Iqroop Singh Ghuman[12][13] | |
| 6th Mountain Division | Bareilly | Previous brigades 1963-71 have included 9th and 99th Mountain Brigades.[14] | |
| Uttar Pradesh Area | [15] | ||
| Eastern Command | Kolkata | Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan (Sept 2019)[16] | Also includes 101 Area (North East) and Bengal Area.[17] |
| III Corps | Dimapur | ||
| 2nd Mountain Division | Dibrugarh | ||
| 57th Mountain Division | Leimakhong | ||
| 56th Infantry Division | Likabali | ||
| IV Corps | Tezpur | ||
| 5th Mountain Division | Bomdila | ||
| 21st Mountain Division | Rangiya | ||
| 71st Mountain Division | Missamari | ||
| XXXIII Corps | Siliguri | ||
| 17th Mountain Division | Gangtok | ||
| 20th Mountain Division | Binnaguri | ||
| 27th Mountain Division | Kalimpong | ||
| XVII Corps** | Panagarh[18][19] | ||
| 59th Infantry Division | Panagarh | ||
| 72 Infantry Division** | Pathankot | ||
| Northern Command | Udhampur | Lieutenant General Yogesh Kumar Joshi (Jan 2020)[20] | |
| XIV Corps | Leh | Raised 1999 | |
| 3rd Infantry Division | Leh | ||
| 8th Mountain Division | Dras | ||
| XV Corps | Srinagar | ||
| 19th Infantry Division | Baramulla | ||
| 28th Mountain Division | Gurez | ||
| XVI Corps | Nagrota | Lt Gen Harshan Gupta (Oct 2019)[21] | |
| 10th Infantry Division | Akhnoor | Includes 10 Artillery Brigade (divisional), of which an EME unit was deployed to J&K mid-2003.[22] | |
| 25th Infantry Division | Rajauri | ||
| 39th Infantry Division | Yol, Himachal Pradesh | ||
| Southern Command | Pune | Lieutenant General CP Mohanty | In post Dec 2019.[23] |
| 41st Artillery Division | Pune | ||
| XII Corps | Jodhpur | ||
| 4th Armoured Brigade | |||
| 340th Mechanised Brigade | Nasirabad? [1] | ||
| 11th Infantry Division | Ahmedabad | ||
| 12th RAPID | Jaisalmer | ||
| XXI Corps | Bhopal | "Glows in the Dark" | |
| 31st Armoured Division | Jhansi | See entry at 31st Indian Armoured Division, the 1940-45 British Indian Army predecessor.[24] | |
| 36th RAPID | Sagar | ||
| 54th Infantry Division | Secunderabad | ||
| 475th Engineering Brigade | |||
| Maharashtra Goa & Gujarat Area | HQ Mumbai[25] | ||
| Dakshin Bharat Area | HQ Chennai[25] | Lieutenant General Pandala Nagesh Rao (Dec 2019)[26] | As late as the 1990s still listed as Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala Area (ATNK&K Area).[27] |
| Andhra Sub Area | |||
| South Western Command | Jaipur | Lieutenant General Alok Singh Kler (Sept 2019)[28] | |
| 42nd Artillery Division | Jaipur | ||
| I Corps | Mathura | ||
| 4th Infantry Division | Allahabad | ||
| 23rd Infantry Division | Ranchi | ||
| 33rd Armoured Division | Hisar Military Station | ||
| X Corps | Bathinda | ||
| 16th Infantry Division | Sri Ganganagar | ||
| 18th RAPID | Kota, Rajasthan | ||
| 24th RAPID | Bikaner | ||
| 6th Independent Armoured Brigade | Suratgarh, Rajasthan | ||
| 615th Independent Air Defence Brigade | |||
| 471st Engineering Brigade | |||
| Delhi and Rajasthan Area | |||
| Western Command | Chandimandir | Lieutenant General Ravendra Pal Singh (Jul 2019)[29] | |
| 40th Artillery Division | Ambala | ||
| II Corps | Ambala | "Kharga Corps" | |
| 1st Armoured Division | Patiala | ||
| 14th RAPID | Dehradun | c. 2001, Division Artillery Brigade was at Raiwala, 35 Infantry Brigade at Dehra Dun, 58 Armoured Brigade at Roorkee, and 116 Infantry Brigade at Dehra Dun.[30] | |
| 22nd Infantry Division | Meerut | Bhophal area | |
| 474th Engineering Brigade | |||
| 612th Mechanised Independent Air Defence Brigade | |||
| IX Corps | Yol, Himachal Pradesh | ||
| 26th Infantry Division | Jammu | ||
| 29th Infantry Division | Pathankot | HQ reported to be in the Kathua-Samba area 2000 | |
| 2nd Independent Armoured Brigade | |||
| 3rd Independent Armoured Brigade | |||
| XI Corps | Jalandhar | ||
| 7th Infantry Division | Firozpur | ||
| 9th Infantry Division | Meerut | A Court of Inquiry was held at Meerut in mid-2011 into the reported fathering of around a dozen children by members of 6th Battalion, Sikh Regiment, 37 Brigade, 9 Division, when the battalion was posted to MONUC in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008.[11] 9 Artillery Brigade was also located in the vicinity. | |
| 15th Infantry Division | Amritsar | ||
| 23rd Armoured Brigade | |||
| 55th (I) Mechanised Brigade | Beas, Punjab[31] | Raised in the 1980s. | |
| Army Training Command | Shimla | Lieutenant General Raj Shukla[32] | Military academies in India#Indian Army |
| Training Establishments | Likely includes Artillery Centre, Nashik, Maharashtra; Army Air Defence Centre, Gopalpur, Orissa, and others. |
Note: ** = Currently being raised
See also
References
- ^ a b International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2017, p290.
- ^ Divisions and Corps of Indian Army, Global Security Archived 28 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "'Make in India' not just confined to India anymore, benefitting others: Jitendra Singh". Outlook. Archived from the original on 10 September 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ "Lt Gen Arvind Dutta Appointed Adjutant General of Indian Army".
- ^ "Lt Gen A K Bhatt joining as Military Secretary at army headquarters". Greater Kashmir. 9 January 2019.
- ^ "Lt Gen S K Upadhyay designated as MGO".
- ^ "Engineer in Chief".
- ^ "List of serving generals of the Indian Army". 1 July 2020 – via Wikipedia.
- ^ U.O.I. (Through Its Secretary) vs Col. A.D. Nargolkar on 24 October, 2018
- ^ Dharshan Kullar (15 May 2017). Themes of Glory: Indian Artillery in War. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd.
- ^ a b Varinder BHATIA (June 7, 2011). "Indian Army probes reports of its UN peacekeepers fathering kids in Congo".
- ^ "Lt-General IS Ghuman assumes charge as Commander of Central Command of Indian Army". 2 October 2019.
- ^ "Lt Gen Ghuman takes over as GOC-in-C of Central Command". 2 October 2019.
- ^ Renaldi & Rikhye 2011, p. 39-40.
- ^ Renaldi & Rikhye 2011, p. 20.
- ^ Sep 1, Jayanta Gupta | TNN | Updated (1 September 2019). "Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan takes over as Eastern Army Commander | Kolkata News – Times of India". The Times of India.
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- ^ "Eye on China, India to raise second division for mountain corps". The Indian Express. 17 March 2017. Archived from the original on 17 March 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ "The mountain is now a molehill". Archived from the original on 7 December 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ Negi, Manjeet Singh (24 January 2020). "Kargil fame Lt Gen YK Joshi appointed Northern Army Commander". India Today. London. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ http://twitter.com/Whiteknight_IA/status/1182927192596111361?s=20
- ^ https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/nation/story/20030804-under-pressure-in-kashmir-valley-militants-target-jammu-as-their-prime-killing-field-792107-2003-08-04
- ^ India, Business Standard (30 December 2019). "Lt Gen CP Mohanty assumes command of Pune-based Southern Command". Business Standard India. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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- ^ a b https://indianarmy.nic.in/Site/FormTemplete/frmTempSimple.aspx?MnId=B2b8au1NHdlhIov7JPuRRA==&ParentID=9nGsZvG3T+vYOwmAN/HlQA==&flag, accessed September 2020.
- ^ https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/kerala-landslide-bleak-chances-of-tracing-five-missing-878218.htm
- ^ Renaldi & Rikhye 2011, p. 18.
- ^ "Kler is new chief of Sapta Shakti Command". 1 September 2019.
- ^ Gurung, Shaurya Karanbir (23 July 2019). "Naravane appointed as new Vice Chief of Indian Army, four army commanders appointed". The Economic Times.
- ^ Mandeep Bajwa; Ravi Rikhye (February 11, 2001). "Indian Army RAPID Divisions". Archived from the original on 2010-11-28.
- ^ Renaldi & Rikhye 2011, p. 162,172.
- ^ Arora, Sumit. "Lt Gen Raj Shukla assumes charge of ARTRAC".
- Indian Army Order of Battle. Orbat.com for Tiger Lily Books: A division of General Data LLC. 2011. ISBN 978-0-9820541-7-8.
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External links
- https://indianexpress.com/article/india/court-of-inquiry-indicts-brigadier-for-misusing-office-for-personal-gains/ - General Officer Commanding Jodhpur Area, Maj Gen C P Mohanty as the presiding officer, 75 Independent Infantry Brigade, Bhuj; 769 Air Defence Brigade, area of Gujarat
- https://www.legitquest.com/case/havildar-clark-dharm-singh-v-union-of-india/c7800 - 611 Air Defence Brigade, 1995. IISS 2017, 290, says that in 2017 there were eight air defence brigades.