The Army Training Command, abbreviated as ARTRAC, is one of the seven commands of the Indian Army. It is currently based at Shimla. It was established on 1 October 1991 at Mhow.

History

The Army Training Command was established on 1 October 1991 at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh and moved to Shimla on 31 March 1993. The Indian Army has diverse, intensive and variegated Operational responsibilities. Due to constant change in the complexion of the future battlefield combined with rapid technological advances, a need to restructure and streamline our overall training structure was identified. The aim was to maximize effectiveness of our training and establish a dedicated organization for formulating concepts and doctrines, which are specifically applicable to our operational environment. The requirement was to be met by the establishment of a centralized, independent and high-powered organization, with the requisite infrastructure and resources to meet all aspects of concepts and doctrine development, training policies and institutional training.

In 2020, it was decided to merge the Directorate General of Military Training (DGMT) with ARTRAC. DGMT runs the Rashtriya Military Schools (RMS).

Objectives

Its roles are to:

  • Formulate concepts and doctrines of warfare in the fields of strategy, operational art, tactics, logistics, training and human resource development stimulating a real-time scenario.
  • Acts as the nodal agency for all institutional training in the Army
  • Evolve joint doctrines in conjunction with other Services
  • Integrating technology like simulation-based war-gaming into training modules

List of Commanders

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Army Training Command
S.NoRankNameAssumed officeLeft officeUnit of CommissionReferences
1Lieutenant GeneralA. S. Kalkat PVSM, UYSM, AVSM1 October 199131 July 19928th Gorkha Rifles
2Shankar Roychowdhury PVSM[1]1 August 199222 November 199420th Lancers
3S. K. Sharma22 November 199431 March 1997Armoured Corps
4Vijay Oberoi PVSM, AVSM, VSM1 April 199715 October 1999Maratha Light Infantry
5H. B. Kala PVSM, AVSM, SC15 October 19991 April 2001Jat Regiment
6Shamsher Singh Mehta PVSM, AVSM, VSM1 April 200131 October 200263rd Cavalry
7Shantanu Choudhry PVSM, AVSM, VSM1 November 200231 December 2002Regiment of Artillery
8J. J. Singh PVSM, AVSM, VSM[2]1 January 200330 January 2004Maratha Light Infantry
9K. Nagaraj PVSM, UYSM1 February 200415 August 2005Maratha Light Infantry
10Deepak Kapoor PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM[3]15 August 200531 September 2005Regiment of Artillery
11K. S. Jamwal PVSM, AVSM, VSM1 October 200531 December 2006Regiment of Artillery
12M. L. Naidu PVSM, AVSM, YSM1 January 200730 September 2007Rajput Regiment
13J. K. Mohanty UYSM, SM, VSM1 October 200731 December 2008Dogra Regiment
14B. S. Jaswal PVSM, AVSM, VSM1 January 200930 September 2009Jammu and Kashmir Rifles
15Arvinder Singh Lamba PVSM, AVSM1 October 20091 December 2010Regiment of Artillery
16K. Surendra Nath PVSM, AVSM, VSM1 January 201130 May 2013Mechanised Infantry
17Sanjeev Madhok PVSM, AVSM, VSM1 June 201330 July 2015Brigade of Guards
18P M Hariz PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM1 August 201531 August 2016Mechanized Infantry
19Dewan Rabindranth Soni VSM17 September 201630 November 2017Central India Horse
20Manoj Mukund Naravane AVSM, SM, VSM[4]1 December 201730 September 2018Sikh Light Infantry
21P C Thimayya PVSM, VSM1 November 201830 April 2020Mechanised Infantry Regiment
22Raj Shukla PVSM, YSM, SM1 May 202031 March 2022Regiment of Artillery
23Surinder Singh Mahal PVSM, AVSM, VSM1 April 202230 November 202341 Armoured Regiment
24Manjinder Singh AVSM, YSM, VSM1 December 202330 June 2024Madras Regiment
25Devendra Sharma PVSM, AVSM, SM1 July 2024Incumbent14th Horse (Scinde Horse)

Notes

1.^ Later became the Chief of Army Staff.

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