South Western Command | |
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Active | 2005 - Present |
Country | India |
Branch | Indian Army |
Type | Command |
Garrison/HQ | Jaipur, Rajasthan |
Commanders | |
GOC-in-C | Lt Gen Manjinder Singh, AVSM YSM VSM |
The South Western Command of the Indian Army was established on 15 April 2005 and became fully operational on 15 August 2005.[1] It was in response to the emerging threats and opportunities on the Western Indo-Pak border. It is headquartered at Jaipur, Rajasthan.
The command's operational unit, X Corps, transferred from Western Command and from an Artillery Division.[1]
Currently, the Western Command has been assigned operational units under:- X Corps and 42nd Artillery Division. The command in total has following units under its belt :- 3 infantry divisions (1 for Mountain warfare), 1 armoured division, 1 artillery division, 2 Reorganised Army Plains Infantry Division (RAPID), 1 armoured brigade, 1 Air-defence brigade, and 1 engineering brigade.
In 2021, except the 33 Armoured Division all the units of I Corps was transferred to Northern Command to focus on the Sino-Indian border at Ladakh.
Structure of South-Western Command | ||||
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Corp | Corp HQ | GOC of Corps
(Corps Commander) |
Assigned Units | Unit HQ |
X Corps
(Chetak Corps) |
Bathinda, Punjab | Lt Gen Nagendra Singh[2] | 16 Infantry Division | Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan |
18 RAPID Division | Kota, Rajasthan | |||
24 RAPID Division | Bikaner, Rajasthan | |||
6 (Independent) Armoured Brigade | Bhatinda, Punjab | |||
615 Air-defence Brigade | Agra, Uttar Pradesh | |||
471 Engineering Brigade | N/A | |||
N/A | N/A | N/A | 42 Artillery Division | Jaipur, Rajasthan |
N/A | N/A | N/A | 33 Armoured Division | Hisar, Haryana |
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