PRESENTATION ON GREAT INDIAN ARMY

1. By ,
Jackson P Mathew
INDIAN ARMY

2. • The Indian Army was formed in 1776, under
the government of the East India Company in
Kolkata.
• About 1,400,000 soldiers are in active service
and about 960,000 are reserve troops.
• The Indian Army is the world's third-largest
standing army
• Its primary mission is to ensure the national
security and defence of the Republic of India
from external aggression and threats, and
maintaining peace and security within its
borders.

3. INDIAN ARMY FLAG

4. INDIAN ARMY PATTERN
• INFANTRY
• EDUCATION
• ENGINEERING
• MEDICAL
• SIGNAL
• TRANSPORT
• MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

5. Commissioned Officers
•Field Marshal
•General (the rank held by
Chief of Army Staff)
•Lieutenant-General
•Major-General
•Brigadier
•Colonel
•Lieutenant-Colonel
•Major
•Captain
•Lieutenant

6. STUCTURE
• COMMANDS
• DIVISION
• CORPS
• BATALION(900)
• COMPANY(120)
• PLATOON(32)
• SECTION(10)

7. OVERVIEW & MILESTONES
• FIRST IND – PAK WAR (1947)
• LIBERATION OF HYDERABAD(1948)
• LIBERATION OF GOA (1961)
• SINO- IND WAR (1962)
• SECOND IND – PAK WAR (1965)
• THIRD IND – PAK WAR (1971)
• INDIA – PAK KARGIL WAR (1999)

8. AMZING FACTS ABOUT INDIAN ARMY
• Ranks 3rd the world.
• The Siachen Glacier, 5000 metres above sea level, is
the highest battlefield in the world. And the Indian
Army controls it.
• The Indian Army is the biggest voluntary army in
the world
• The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world,
located in the Ladakh valley . It was constructed by
the Indian Army in 1982
• No caste-based provisions.

9. Cont.
• India covertly tested its nuclear arsenal in the
early 1970s and late 1990s without the CIA
even knowing what was happening.
• Operation Rahat of 2013 was one of the
biggest civilian rescue operations ever carried
out in the world.
• The Indo Pakistan War of 1971 came to end
with the surrender of about 93,000
combatants and officials of the Pakistani Army.

10. THANK YOU