South Western Command (India)

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South Western Command
IA South Western Command.jpg
South Western Command's insignia today
Active2005 - Present
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
BranchFlag of Indian Army.svg  Indian Army
Type Command
Garrison/HQ Jaipur, Rajasthan
Commanders
GOC-in-C Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth

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.

Contents

The command's operational unit, X Corps, transferred from Western Command and from an Artillery Division. [1]

Structure

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, the 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
CorpCorp HQGOC of Corps

(Corps Commander)

Assigned UnitsUnit 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 BrigadeN/A
N/AN/AN/A42 Artillery Division Jaipur, Rajasthan
N/AN/AN/A33 Armoured Division Hisar, Haryana

List of Commanders

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South-Western Command
RankNameAppointment DateLeft OfficeUnit of CommissionReferences
Lieutenant General Krishnamurthy Nagaraj15 April 200531 July 2006 Maratha Light Infantry [3]
Lieutenant General Parmendra Kumar Singh1 August 200631 July 2008 Regiment of Artillery [4] [5]
Lieutenant General Chanroth Kunnumal Suchindra Sabu1 September 200830 November 2010 Regiment of Artillery [6] [4]
Lieutenant General Shri Krishna Singh 1 December 201031 October 2011 8th Gorkha Rifles [7]
Lieutenant General Gyan Bhushan1 November 201131 December 2013 Mahar Regiment [8]
Lieutenant General Arun K Sahni1 January 201431 January 2016 Regiment of Artillery [9] [10] [11]
Lieutenant General Sarath Chand 1 February 201612 January 2017 Garhwal Rifles [12]
Lieutenant General Abhay Krishna 25 January 201731 July 2017 Rajputana Rifles [13]
Lieutenant General Cherish Mathson 1 August 201731 August 2019 Garhwal Rifles [14] [15] [16] [17]
Lieutenant General Alok Singh Kler 1 September 201931 March 2021 68 Armoured Regiment [18]
Lieutenant General Amardeep Singh Bhinder 1 April 202128 February 2023 The Deccan Horse [19]
Lieutenant General B. S. Raju 1 March 202331 October 2023 Jat Regiment [20]
Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth 01 November 2023Incumbent 2nd Lancers [21]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Renaldi and Rikhye 2011, 21
  2. ↑ Dolare, Rahul (1 January 2024). "Lieutenant General Prit Pal Singh Assumes Command of Sudarshan Chakra Corps".
  3. ↑ "The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab". tribuneindia.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  4. 1 2 "PressReader - the Times of India (New Delhi edition): 2008-09-01 - New GOC-in-chief of South Western Command". Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017– via PressReader.
  5. ↑ "Sainik Samachar". Archived from the original on 24 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Jharkhand | School gets new campus". telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "Lt Gen S K Singh takes over as Army SW Command chief". Deccan Herald. 3 December 2010. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "Lt Gen Gyan Bhushan takes over as SW command's new GOC-in-C". Moneycontrol. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  9. ↑ "SW Army Commander Arun Kumar Sahni retires". Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  10. ↑ Singh, Mahim Pratap (1 January 2014). "Change of guard at South-Western command of Army". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X. Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  11. ↑ "Lt Gen Arun Kumar Sahni designated as GOC-in-C, South Western Command | NetIndian". netindian.in. 13 December 2013. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  12. ↑ "Lt Gen Sarath Chand new GOC-in C of South Western Command". Archived from the original on 2 February 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  13. ↑ "Lt Gen Abhay Krishna takes over Army's South Western Command". The Economic Times. 2017. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  14. ↑ "Lieutenant General Cherish Mathson to head army command". Deccan Chronicle. 21 July 2017. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  15. ↑ "Lt Gen Cherish Mathson takes over Army's South Western Command". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  16. ↑ "Lt Gen Mathson relinquishes command of Sapta Shakti Command in Jaipur". 31 August 2019.
  17. ↑ "Sapta Shakti Command chief Cherish Mathson retires". The Times of India . 1 September 2019.
  18. ↑ "Kler is new chief of Sapta Shakti Command". The Times of India . 1 September 2019.
  19. ↑ "Lt Gen Yogendra Dimri appointed as next Commander-in-chief of Lucknow-based Central Army Command". ANI News. 27 February 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  20. ↑ "Lt. Gen. Raju shifted, new Vice-Chief named". The Hindu. 16 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
  21. ↑ "Lt Gen B S Raju retires as South-Western Command GOC in chief". 1 November 2023.

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