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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.

Indian Army Structure (click to enlarge)

The troops are organized into 40 Divisions in 14 Corps.[2]

Principal Staff Officers at Headquarters, Indian Army

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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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ a b International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2017, p290.
  2. ^ Divisions and Corps of Indian Army, Global Security Archived 28 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "'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.
  4. ^ "Lt Gen Arvind Dutta Appointed Adjutant General of Indian Army".
  5. ^ "Lt Gen A K Bhatt joining as Military Secretary at army headquarters". Greater Kashmir. 9 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Lt Gen S K Upadhyay designated as MGO".
  7. ^ "Engineer in Chief".
  8. ^ "List of serving generals of the Indian Army". 1 July 2020 – via Wikipedia.
  9. ^ U.O.I. (Through Its Secretary) vs Col. A.D. Nargolkar on 24 October, 2018
  10. ^ Dharshan Kullar (15 May 2017). Themes of Glory: Indian Artillery in War. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd.
  11. ^ a b Varinder BHATIA (June 7, 2011). "Indian Army probes reports of its UN peacekeepers fathering kids in Congo".
  12. ^ "Lt-General IS Ghuman assumes charge as Commander of Central Command of Indian Army". 2 October 2019.
  13. ^ "Lt Gen Ghuman takes over as GOC-in-C of Central Command". 2 October 2019.
  14. ^ Renaldi & Rikhye 2011, p. 39-40.
  15. ^ Renaldi & Rikhye 2011, p. 20.
  16. ^ 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ Renaldi & Rikhye 2011, p. 19.
  18. ^ "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.
  19. ^ "The mountain is now a molehill". Archived from the original on 7 December 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  20. ^ Negi, Manjeet Singh (24 January 2020). "Kargil fame Lt Gen YK Joshi appointed Northern Army Commander". India Today. London. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  21. ^ http://twitter.com/Whiteknight_IA/status/1182927192596111361?s=20
  22. ^ 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
  23. ^ 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. {{cite news}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  24. ^ Renaldi & Rikhye 2011, p. 34, 52.
  25. ^ a b https://indianarmy.nic.in/Site/FormTemplete/frmTempSimple.aspx?MnId=B2b8au1NHdlhIov7JPuRRA==&ParentID=9nGsZvG3T+vYOwmAN/HlQA==&flag, accessed September 2020.
  26. ^ https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/kerala-landslide-bleak-chances-of-tracing-five-missing-878218.htm
  27. ^ Renaldi & Rikhye 2011, p. 18.
  28. ^ "Kler is new chief of Sapta Shakti Command". 1 September 2019.
  29. ^ Gurung, Shaurya Karanbir (23 July 2019). "Naravane appointed as new Vice Chief of Indian Army, four army commanders appointed". The Economic Times.
  30. ^ Mandeep Bajwa; Ravi Rikhye (February 11, 2001). "Indian Army RAPID Divisions". Archived from the original on 2010-11-28.
  31. ^ Renaldi & Rikhye 2011, p. 162,172.
  32. ^ 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. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
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