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Upon the establishment of India's independence in 1947, the country became a dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations.Nevertheless, the armed forces, namely, the British Indian Army (IA), the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) and the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) - under the helm of King George VI as the Commander-in-Chief - retained their respective pre-independence ranks and corresponding ...
Rank Name Photo Decorations Reference Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Strategy) Lieutenant General: Pratik Sharma PVSM, AVSM, SM [12] Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Information Systems and Coordination) Rakesh Kapoor AVSM, VSM [13] Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Capability Development and Sustenance) Rahul R Singh AVSM, VSM [14] Adjutant General: VPS Kaushik
The office of the Adjutant General deals with a wide spectrum of issues relating to Army, which includes manpower planning, human resource policy, recruitment, discipline, matters relating to Judge Advocate General's Department, Provost Marshal Directorate (Corps of Military Police), missing defence personnel, service matters relating to personnel and welfare of serving soldiers.
On all formal parades, the standard procedure is for the company havildar major to first report to the subedar adjutant, and the subedar adjutant in turn to report to the adjutant. In the British Indian Army, the equivalent position was the jemadar adjutant, who held the lower rank of jemadar.
Later, it became a rank used in the British Indian Army, where it was the lowest rank for a Viceroy's commissioned officer. Jemadars either commanded platoons or troops themselves or assisted their British commander. They also filled regimental positions such as assistant quartermaster (jemadar quartermaster) or assistant adjutant (jemadar ...
A 1999 stamp dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the National Defence Academy, featuring its Sudan Block. At the end of World War II, Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, then Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, drawing on experiences of the army during the war, led a committee around the world and submitted a report to the Government of India in December 1946.
Indian Police Service gazetted officers rank insignia [53] [54] [55] Insignia: Rank: Director general of police: Additional director general of police [a]
Lieutenant General Ashwani Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC (born 17 Oct 1959) [1] is a former general officer in the Indian Army. He retired after 39 years of service and last served as the Adjutant General. [2]