South Western Command (India)

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.

South Western Command
South Western Command's insignia today
Active2005 - Present
Country India
Branch Indian Army
TypeCommand
Garrison/HQJaipur, Rajasthan
Commanders
GOC-in-CLieutenant General B. S. Raju

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
Corp Corp HQ GOC of Corps

(Corps Commander)

 Assigned Units Unit HQ
X Corps

(Chetak Corps)

 Bathinda, Punjab Lt Gen J. B. Chaudhari[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 N/A
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

List of Commanders
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South-Western Command
Rank Name Appointment Date Left Office Unit of Commission References
Lieutenant General Krishnamurthy Nagaraj 15 April 2005 31 July 2006 Maratha Light Infantry [3]
Lieutenant General Parmendra Kumar Singh 1 August 2006 31 July 2008 Regiment of Artillery [4][5]
Lieutenant General Chanroth Kunnumal Suchindra Sabu 1 September 2008 30 November 2010 Regiment of Artillery [6][4]
Lieutenant General Shri Krishna Singh 1 December 2010 31 October 2011 8th Gorkha Rifles [7]
Lieutenant General Gyan Bhushan 1 November 2011 31 December 2013 Mahar Regiment [8]
Lieutenant General Arun Kumar Sahani 1 January 2014 31 January 2016 Regiment of Artillery [9][10][11]
Lieutenant General Sarath Chand 1 February 2016 12 January 2017 Garhwal Rifles [12]
Lieutenant General Abhay Krishna 25 January 2017 31 July 2017 Rajputana Rifles [13]
Lieutenant General Cherish Mathson 1 August 2017 31 August 2019 Garhwal Rifles [14][15][16][17]
Lieutenant General Alok Singh Kler 1 September 2019 31 March 2021 68 Armoured Regiment [18]
Lieutenant General Amardeep Singh Bhinder 1 April 2021 28 February 2023 The Deccan Horse [19]
Lieutenant General B. S. Raju 1 March 2023 Incumbent Jat Regiment [20]

Notes
  1. Renaldi and Rikhye 2011, 21
  2. "Lt Gen JB Chaudhari took over as the General Officer Commanding of the prestigious ChetakCorps from Lt Gen MK Mago". Twitter. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  3. "The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab". tribuneindia.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  4. "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.

References
  • Richard A. Renaldi and Ravi Rikhe, 'Indian Army Order of Battle,' Orbat.com for Tiger Lily Books: A division of General Data LLC, ISBN 978-0-9820541-7-8, 2011.


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