Military academies in India

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The Indian Defence services have established numerous academies and staff colleges across India for the purpose of training professional soldiers in military sciences, warfare command and strategy, and associated technologies.

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Education and training

Rashtriya Indian Military College : The Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), Dehradun was founded on 13 March 1922 with the object of providing necessary preliminary recruit training for Indians wishing to become officers in Indian Armed Forces. The institution now runs school classes from 8th to 12th on 10+2 CBSE pattern and serves as a feeder institution to the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla (Pune), where males who have passed 12th class of school are taken as cadets to receive their initial training for the Army, Navy and Air Force.

Sainik School : The Sainik Schools are asystem of schools in India established and managed by the Sainik Schools Society under Ministry of Defence. They were conceived in 1961 by V. K. Krishna Menon, the then Defence Minister of India, to rectify the regional and class imbalance amongst the Officer cadre of the Indian Military, and to prepare students mentally and physically for entry into the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, Pune and Indian Naval Academy (INA), Ezhimala, Kerala. Today there are 33 such schools running and proposed for future covering all the states of the country. [1] [2]

Integrated national institute

Indian National Defence University at Gurugram in Haryana is likely to commence courses from 2018-19 as an autonomous integrated national institute. [3] [4] [5] [6] At least 66% students will be from the Indian Armed Forces and the remaining 33% will be from the Paramilitary forces of India, Police in India and civilians. [3] Functioning on the similar principals as Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the university will offer post-graduate studies, doctoral and post-doctoral research as well as higher studies through distance learning to military and civilians to be imparted by the mixed teaching faculty composed of military officials and civilians in the ratio of 1:1. [3] [7]

Courses will include war gaming and simulation, neighborhood studies, counter insurgency and counter terrorism, Chinese studies, evaluation of strategic thought, international security issues, maritime security studies, Eurasian studies, South East Asian studies, material acquisition, joint logistics, and national security strategy in peace and war. [8]

Following existing institutes will be affiliated to the university: [3]

Indian Army

The chief institutions training Indian Army officers are:

Others include:

Indian Navy

The Indian Navy has numerous training establishments at various places. The Indian Naval Academy is presently located in Ezhimala, near Kannur in Kerala State.

Name of InstituteLocationRole
Indian Naval Academy Ezhimala Officers Training
Naval War College Goa Officer Leadership Training
INS Chilka Khordha Sailors Training
INS Venduruthy Kochi Seamanship School
INS Satavahana Visakhapatnam Submarine School
INS Dronacharya Kochi Naval Weapons Training
INS Hamla Mumbai Combined Operations Training
INS Garuda Kochi Aviation
INS Rajali Arakkonam Helicopter Training School
INS Agrani Coimbatore Leadership Training
INS Mandovi Panaji Provost and Physical Training School
INS Shivaji Lonavala Technical Training
INS Valsura Jamnagar Electric Equipment Training
INS Vishwakarma Visakhapatnam Shipwright School [10]
Institute of Naval Medicine Mumbai
Naval Institute of Educational and Training Technology (NIETT) Kochi
National Institute of Hydrography Goa

Indian Air Force

The Indian Air Force has a Training Command and several training establishments. While technical and other support staff are trained at the various Ground Training Schools, the pilots are trained at the Air Force Academy located at Dundigal, near Hyderabad, Telangana.

For Officers

Name of InstituteLocation
College of Air Warfare Secunderabad (near Hyderabad) [11]
Tactics and Air Combat Development Establishment (TACDE) Gwalior
Flying Instructors School Tambaram
Pilot Training Establishment Allahabad
Air Force Administrative College Coimbatore
Institute of Aero-Space Medicine Bangalore
Air Force Technical Training College Jalahalli (near Bangalore)
Paratrooper's Training School Agra
Indian Air Force Test Pilot School Bangalore
TETTRA Schools Pune, Chandigarh, Dundigal
Air Defence College Memaura (near Lucknow)

For Airmen [12]

Name of InstituteLocation
Basic Training Institute Belgaum
Mechanical Transport Training Institute (MTTI) Avadi
Workshop Training Institute (WTI) Tambaram
Mechanical Training Institute (MTI) Tambaram
Electronic Training Institute (ETI) Jalahalli (near Bangalore)
Electric & Instrumentation Training Institute (EITI) Jalahalli (near Bangalore)
Communication Training Institute (CTI) Jalahalli (near Bangalore)
Air Force Police & Security Training Institute (AFP&STI) Avadi
Non-Technical Training Institute (NTTI) Belgaum
Air Force School of Physical Fitness (AFSPF) Belgaum
Medical Training Centre (MTC)Agram Post, Bangalore
Garud Regimental Training Centre (GRTC)Chandinagar

Indian Coast Guard

As of now Indian Coast Guard Navik (sailors) Cadets are trained at INS Chilka and other naval establishments. Officer cadets are currently trained at Indian Naval Academy. In coming years, the new Indian Coast Guard Academy is coming up at Mangalore.

Tri-service Institutions

Medical Personnel

The AFMC is located in Pune, Maharashtra. It is an inter-services institution. AFMC has multiple roles to perform. They are primarily training of medical undergraduates and post-graduates, dental postgraduates, nursing cadets and paramedical staff. Patient care forms an integral part of its training curriculum and the attached hospital benefits from the expertise available at AFMC. The institution is responsible for providing the entire pool of specialists and super-specialists to Armed Forces by giving them in-service training.

The AFMC is well known as one of the premier medical institutions of India, and its entrance is through National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for which lakhs of students appear. The students compete for its 150 seats (30 for female cadets and 115 for male cadets) out of which 5 are reserved for cadets from friendly foreign countries . Selected candidates are also required to pass a medical and fitness test, which is at par with the one for Officer Cadets. On the completion of the five-year course, the medical cadets are granted short service commission for seven years or permanent commission in the Indian Army, Navy, or Air Force, which includes a one year internship, after which the officers are detailed for Medical Officers' Basic Course (MOBC) at the Officers' Training School at AMC Centre and School at Lucknow for basic military training as well as training in battle-field medicine.

Nursing students from College of Nursing, Army Hospital (R&R) are commissioned into the Military Nursing Service (MNS) as lieutenants. After being posted into the MNS, the lieutenants would go on to be posted across the nation in various Armed Forces Hospitals.

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