Army Training Command
Military unit
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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).
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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 to evolve joint doctrines, fostering tri-service integration for modern warfare scenarios.
- Integrating technology like simulation-based war-gaming into training modules
- Planning, co-ordination, supervision and implementation of training policy and conduct of training courses, at specified training establishments of the Indian Army.
- MoUs & linkages with civ Universities, NCERT, UGC & UPSC wrt examination trends
- Creating policy with respect to Joint training with other services, BMT in Cat ‘B’ establishment.
List of Army Commanders
THe following table chronicles the list of General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Army Training Command.