THE INDIAN ARMY

“Seva Parmao Dharma” – “Service Before Self”

Presented by:-
Nushrath Beegam
NS04
Natural Science
Zainab Memorial College of Teacher Education
Cherkala,Kasaragod,Kerala
Founded : 1 April 1895;123 years ago
Size : 1,237,117 active personnel
960,000 reserve personnel
174 aircrafts
Part of : Indian Armed Forces
Headquarters : New Delhi
Motto(s) : “Service Before Self”
Colors : Gold, Red and Black
Anniversaries : 15 January – Army Day
Website : indianarmy.nic.in
Indian Army is the land based branch
and the largest component of Indian
Armed Forces.

• Indian Army originated from the Armies of

the East India Company, eventually became
the British Indian Army and the armies of the
princely states, and it finally became the
National Army after Independence
The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian
Army, and it is commanded by Chief of Army Staff(COAS), which
is a four-star General

Two officers have been conferred with the rank of field marshal, a five
star rank which is a ceremonial position of great honor.
The Flag of Indian Army
Structure of Indian Army
 The army has also been an active
participant in UN Peace keeping Missions

Since Independence, the Indian Army has been

involved in 4 wars with Pakistan and 1 with China

Other major operations

undertaken by the Army:-

1. Operation Vijay – Kargil War in

1999

2. Operation Meghdoot – to gain

control over Siachen Glacier in 1984

3. Operation Cactus – to stop a

Military Coup in Maldives in 1988
 Role:
To ensure the
national
security and
safeguard
sovereignty,
territorial
integrity and
unity of India
from external
aggressions
and threats
 War fighting
TASKS to meet
External
Aggression

Internal
Security
Managemen Force
t to include Projection
Internal
Threats

Render
Peace Humanitarian
Assistance ,
keeping Disaster Relief
Operations and Aid to Civil
Authority during
or Military calamities and
Assistance natural
disasters
 Organization
of the Indian
Army

1.ARMS:-
Covers those
troop which
carry out
actual
operations
2.SERVICES:-
The remaining
components of the army.
Their primary duty is to
provide logistics and
administration for the
army
Fighting Armor
Arms
Infantry

Mechanized Infantry

Supporting Signals
Arms Artillery
Engineers
Army Air Defense
Army Aviation Corps

services Army Service Corps

Army Medical Corps
Army Ordinance Corps
Corps of electronics and mechanical engineers
Remounted Veterinary Corps
The Intelligence Corps
Indian Army Day – Jan 15
Celebrated on the 15th
of January in the
National Capital Delhi, Lt. General KM Cariappa
in the form of parades took over as the first
and other military shows Commander in Chief of the
independent India in 1948 on
this day
 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT INDIAN ARMY
 India has the biggest volunteer army in the world.
 India controls the highest battlefield in the world , The
Siachen Glacier , at 5000 meters above Mean Sea
Level(MSL).
 Indian soldiers are considered among the very best in high
altitude and mountain warfare.
 The Indian Army’s High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) is
one of the most elite military training centers in the world
and is frequented by Special Ops teams from the US , UK
and Russia.
 Operation The Indian Army
Rahat(2013) was has a horsed
one of the biggest Cavalry Regiment-
civilian rescue one of the last
operations ever three remaining of
carried out in the such regiments in
world the world

The Indian Army

built the highest
altitude bridge in
the world, The
Bailey Bridge
Indian Army is the third biggest military contingent in the world next
to USA and China.

AGNI is one of the best missile series of the world.

AGNI and Prithvi both are nuclear capable ballistic missiles and are
among the most accurate in the world in their respective categories.

The missile BrahMos-2 is the fastest hypersonic missile in the world.

AGNI-VI will give India the power to strike almost every part of the
world.
RECENTS
PULWAMA TERROR ATTACK

In the worst ever

terror attack in
Jammu and Kashmir,
The blast was Pakistan based
a suicide bomber
followed by gun terrorist group
rammed his
shots by terrorists at Jaish-e-Mohammed
explosive laden
around 3:15 PM on took responsibility
vehicle into a CRPF
14 Feb 2019 for the attack
convoy on the
Srinagar-Jammu
highway
SUKMA ATTACK - 2018

On 13 march 2018, 9 CRPF personnel were killed and 6 others

were injured when Maoists blew up a mine-protected vehicle
with an IED in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh

The attack came almost 11 days after Indian security

personnel killed 10 alleged Naxalites in the forests of
Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on March 2
SUNJUWAN ATTACK-2018
• On 10 Feb 2018, at predawn, Jaish-e-
Mohammed Fidayeen attacked an Indian Army
Camp in Sunjuwan, Jammu and Kashmir
• 11 soldiers, 4 attackers and 1 civilian were killed
and 20
• This attack coincided with the death anniversary
of Afzal Guru, a convict in the 2001 Indian
Parliament Attack
 ..........And many more ……….
The Indian Army plays an important role in protecting the
lives of each and every Indian
Salute to the Indian Army
Reference :-

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