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Adjutant-General (India)

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The Adjutant-General of the Indian Army is the senior administration officer who reports to the Chief of Army Staff and is also the Colonel of the Corps of Military Police and Judge Advocate General.[1]

Role, organisation and function

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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.[2]

The Adjutant-General's office is organised as follows:[3][4]

  • Director General (Manpower Planning and Personnel Services)
    • Additional Directorate General Manpower
    • Additional Directorate General of Recruiting
    • Additional Directorate General Personnel and Services
  • Director General (Discipline, Ceremonial and Welfare)
    • Additional Directorate General (Discipline and Vigilance)
    • Additional Directorate General (Ceremonial and Welfare)
    • Provost Marshal
    • Judge Advocate General's Department
    • Managing Director, Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS)
  • Director General Medical Services
  • Director General Dental Services
  • Army Group Insurance
  • Directorate of Indian Army Veterans
    • Policy and Outreach
    • Pension and Entitlements
    • Benefits and Services
    • Career Transition Planning Sections
  • Army Welfare Education Society
  • Army Welfare Housing Organisation

Adjutants-General prior to Independence

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Adjutants-General before the independence of India have included:

Rank Name Appointment Date Left Office References
Colonel Sir Henry George Smith 6 March 1840 7 April 1846 [5]
Colonel Charles Robert Cureton 7 April 1846 22 November 1848 [6]
Colonel Armine Simcoe Henry Mountain 2 February 1849 8 February 1854 [7]
Colonel Frederick Markham 7 April 1854 28 November 1854 [8]
Colonel Henry Havelock 28 November 1854 30 July 1857 [9]
Colonel Sir Edward Lugard 31 July 1857 22 October 1858 [10]
Colonel The Hon. William Lygon Pakenham 22 October 1858 1860 [11]
Colonel Edmund Haythorne 22 June 1860 Jan 1866 [12]
Colonel Henry Errington Longden Jan 1866 Mar 1869
Major-General The Hon. Frederic Augustus Thesiger Mar 1869 Mar 1874
Major-General Edwin Beaumont Johnson Mar 1874 Sep 1874
Major-General Sir Peter Stark Lumsden Sep 1874 Oct 1879
Major-General Sir George Richards Greaves Oct 1879 Nov 1884
Major-General Sir Thomas Durand Baker Nov 1884 Feb 1887
Major-General William Kidston Elles Feb 1887 Oct 1890
Major-General William Galbraith Oct 1890 Apr 1895
Major-General Gerald de Courcy Morton Apr 1895 Nov 1898
Major-General Sir William Nicholson 4 Nov 1898 9 Nov 1901
Major-General Sir Edmond Elles (acting Adjutant-General) 4 Jan 1900 Apr 1901 [13]
Major-General Beauchamp Duff (acting Adjutant-General) Apr 1901 Nov 1901
Major-General Horace Smith-Dorrien 9 Nov 1901 Jun 1903 [14]
Major-General Beauchamp Duff Jun 1903 Mar 1906
Major-General Alfred Martin Apr 1906 May 1908
Major-General Robert Scallon Jun 1908 Mar 1909
Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Barrett Apr 1909 Feb 1912
Major-General Fenton Aylmer Mar 1912 Nov 1915
Major-General John Walter Nov 1915 Feb 1917
Lieutenant-General Sir Havelock Hudson Feb 1917 Nov 1920
Lieutenant-General Sir Walter Delamain Nov 1920 Mar 1923
Lieutenant-General Sir George Barrow Mar 1923 Feb 1924
General Sir John Shea Feb 1924 May 1928
General Sir Robert Cassels May 1928 May 1930
General Sir Norman MacMullen May 1930 Apr 1932
General Sir Walter Leslie Apr 1932 Apr 1936
Lieutenant-General Sir John Brind Apr 1936 Oct 1937
General Sir Roger Wilson Oct 1937 Mar 1941
Lieutenant-General Brodie Haig May 1941 Oct 1941
Lieutenant-General Sir William Baker Oct 1941 Mar 1944
Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Deedes Mar 1944 Mar 1946
Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Savory Mar 1946 1947 [15]

Adjutants-General after Independence

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Adjutants-General after independence have included:

Rank Name Appointment Date Left Office Unit of Commission References
Major General Hira Lal Atal 16th Light Cavalry [16][17]
S M Shrinagesh January 1948 August 1948 19th Hyderabad Regiment [18]
Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri January 1952 January 1953 7th Light Cavalry [19]
Lieutenant General Kanwar Bahadur Singh 1 October 1959 19th Hyderabad Regiment [16][20]
P P Kumaramangalam 5 October 1959 30 April 1963 Regiment of Artillery [21]
Kashmir Singh Katoch 1 May 1963 November 1963 East Surrey Regiment [22]
Har Prasad December 1970 3rd Cavalry [23]
Har Krishen Sibal December 1970 June 1972 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) [23]
Srinivas Kumar Sinha July 1980 Jat Regiment [24]
K Balaram July 1985 Corps of Signals
SK Mazumdar 1988 Bengal Sappers
Manohar Lal Chibber 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) [25]
Bhartruhari Trimbak Pandit 1990 March 1992 Corps of Engineers [26][27]
R V Kulkarni March 1992 April 1993 Garhwal Rifles [28]
Madan Mohan Lakhera June 1993 October 1995 Kumaon Regiment [16][29]
Krishna Mohan Seth October 1995 31 December 1997 Regiment of Artillery [30]
S S Grewal 1 January 1998 30 April 2002 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles [31]
A Natarajan 1 May 2002 31 January 2004 Regiment of Artillery [32]
Mohinder Singh 3 February 2004 30 October 2005 Punjab Regiment [33]
A S Jamwal 31 October 2005 31 August 2006 Regiment of Artillery [34][35]
Thomas Mathew 1 September 2006 January 2009 Rajput Regiment [34][36]
Mukesh Sabharwal January 2009 2011 Rajput Regiment [37][38]
Jai Prakash Nehra 2011 May 2013 Madras Regiment [39][40]
Sanjeev Anand 2013 2014 Mechanised Infantry Regiment [41][42]
Gurmit Singh July 2014 2015 Assam Regiment [43]
Rakesh Sharma 2015 March 2017 11th Gorkha Rifles [44]
Ashwani Kumar 2017 31 October 2019 Corps of Army Air Defence [45]
Arvind Dutta 1 January 2020 November 2020 Dogra Regiment [46]
Harsha Gupta December 2020 March 2022 Sikh Light Infantry [47]
Bansi Ponnappa April 2022 31 July 2024 Mahar Regiment [48]
VPS Kaushik 3 August 2024 Incumbent Kumaon Regiment [49]

References

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  10. ^ "No. 22051". The London Gazette. 13 October 1857. p. 3426.
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  13. ^ "No. 27469". The London Gazette. 29 August 1902. p. 5610.
  14. ^ "No. 27397". The London Gazette. 14 January 1902. p. 297.
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  44. ^ "Indian Army and CGDA hold conference to upgrade Financial Governance". 16 January 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  45. ^ "Lt General Ashwani Kumar assumes charge as Adjutant General". 8 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  46. ^ "Lt Gen Arvind Dutta appointed Adjutant General of Indian Army". ANI. 30 October 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  47. ^ "MOU Signed Between Directorate of Indian Army Veterans (DIAV) and Mrs Veena Nayyar to Support Families of Servicemen Deceased in the Line of Duty". 1 March 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
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  49. ^ "Lt Gen VPS Kaushik assumes as Adjutant General of Indian Army". 3 August 2024. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
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