Important Changes:
- In 1955, the Commander-in-Chief was renamed as the Chief of the Army Staff, Naval President and Chief of the Air Force.
- The Department of Defense Production was established in November 1962 for research, development and production of defence equipment.
- In November 1965, the Department of Defense Supply of Defense requirements was created.
- The Department of Defense Research and Development was created in 1980.
- In 2004, the Department of Defense Production and Supply has renamed the Department of Defense Production.
- The Ex-Servicemen Welfare Department was formed in 2004.
- The post of Chief of Defense Staff i.e. CDS was created in 2019.
Control of Indian Army:
The President of India is the supreme commander of the Indian armed forces, as happens in all democratic countries. The Indian armed forces are controlled by the political leadership chosen by the public i.e. the Government of India. The defence minister assumes this responsibility on behalf of the government. The Ministry of Defense handles matters related to personnel, financial and resource management.
Organizational Structure:
The Secretary of the Ministry of Defense, Government of India, the Secretary of Defense of India, serves as the administrative head of the Department of Defense. Additionally, the four secretaries under the Ministry of Defense are responsible for coordinating the activities of the Department of Defense, Department of Defense Production, Department of Defense Research and Development and Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare.
Chief of Staff Committee:
The post of Chief of Staff Committee (COSC) has now become the post of Chief of Defense Staff i.e. CDS. The first Chief of Staff Committee consisted of the Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force and the senior-most member among the three was appointed as its chairman. General Bipin Rawat holds the record for being the country's first CDS and the last Chairman of the Chief of Staff Committee (COSC).
Military general :
The three major parts of the Indian Army are the Army, the Air Force and the Navy. The president of all the parts is their chief of staff, the supreme officer. Like General, MM Narwane is the Chief of the Army Staff, also known as the Chief of the Army Staff.
Seven Command of the Army:
The Indian Army has seven commands. Among them, a Shimla-based training command oversees all institutional training in the Army. However, apart from these the army also has an independent parachute brigade. Each command has its own headquarters. All the command has separate corps as well as divisions like artillery, infantry, armoured, mountain and rapid, as well as air defence brigade and engineering brigade.
Operational command:
Command Headquarters Division Corps Brigade
Eastern Kolkata 10 03 -
Central Lucknow - - -
Northern Udhampur 07 03 01
Southern Pune 06 02 03
South-Western Jaipur 07 02 03
Western Chandigarh 09 03 06
Organization of the Army:
The Army Chief is followed by all the six Operational Command and one Training Command with their separate heads. These are called army commanders. He is also called General Officer Commanding in Chief. All these lieutenant generals hold the three-star rank.
Understand the structure:
- The head of the corps is also the three-star rank holder Lieutenant General. They are also called corps commanders. A core consists of 3-4 divisions.
- The head of the division is called Major General. Their rank is two stars. They are also called division commanders. Each division has 3-4 brigades. The division consists of about 15,000 armed soldiers and about eight thousand auxiliary personnel.
- The head of the brigade is called a brigadier. These are officers with a star rank. They are also called brigade commanders. They consist of three battalions/regiments and auxiliary jawans and equipment.
- The battalion/regiment is headed by an officer of the rank of colonel. A battalion/regiment consists of four rifle companies. The battalion/regiment consists of about 850 soldiers.
- The company consists of three platoons. Its head is called the company commander. They are Lieutenant Colonel and Major rank officers. The company consists of 90 to 120 soldiers.
- The platoon/pulton is headed by a JCO rank officer. There are three to four sections under these.
The section is called the smallest unit of the army. It is headed by the section commander. It consists of 10 jawans of Havildar level.
Army has two parts:
On an executive basis, the army consists of two parts, one-armed party and the other the service team. The armed team consists of soldiers who take part in the search operation. Whereas, apart from armed forces, the rest of the army is kept under the service team. Their main job is to provide necessary logistics to the army and to do administrative work.
Armed Squad:
The armed forces are divided into three parts - armoured teams, infantry and machine gun infantry. While the Auxiliary Armed Forces, the Auxiliary Armed Forces consist of the following divisions: artillery, engineering, air defence units, aviation forces and signal delivery teams.
Service team:
On the other hand, the service team includes service corps (ration, transport and clerks), medical corps, ordnance corps (ammunition, vehicles, clothing and all equipment), electronics and mechanical engineers corps (repair of weapons and vehicles), remount Veterinary corps (new Weapons and technology) and an intelligence corps (gathering secret information about the enemy), etc.
