User:Buckshot06/List of units and formations of the Indian Army

The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) directs the army from Army Headquarters in New Delhi.

The army has six operational commands and one training command. Each command is headed by a general officer commanding-in-chief with the rank of Lieutenant General. Each command directly reports to Army HQ in New Delhi. These commands are given below in order of creation, with location (city) and commanders listed. There is also the Army Training Command (ARTRAC). Besides these, army officers may head tri-service commands such as the Strategic Forces Command and Andaman and Nicobar Command, as well as institutions such as the Integrated Defence Staff.

The troops are organized into 40 Divisions in 14 Corps.

Command structure
IISS 2017 reports the Army's independent manoeuvre brigades number eight (armoured); two (mechanised); seven (infantry); two (mountain) plus 50 Parachute Brigade, along with the three artillery divisions, four engineer brigades, and eight air defence brigades.

In addition to 10 Artillery Brigade, the headquarters of 7 Artillery Brigade was located in Ferozpur, Punjab in June 2007; 8 Artillery Brigade was identified as Maj Gen Lakhwinder Singh was its General Officer Commanding during the Kargil War, and 9 Artillery Brigade was identified when the Brigade Commander presided over a Court of Inquiry at Meerut into the reported fathering of around a dozen children by members of 6th Battalion, Sikh Regiment, 37 Brigade, 9th Infantry Division when the battalion was posted to MONUC in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008. The report also indicated that Indian servicemen had "exchanged food and information for gold with Rwandan rebels in ..North Kivu."

Note: ** = Currently being raised