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South Western Command
Insignia of the South Western Command
Active	2005 - Present
Country	India
Branch	Indian Army
Type	Command
Garrison/HQ	Jaipur, Rajasthan
Commanders
GOC-in-C	Lt Gen Manjinder Singh, AVSM YSM VSM
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The South Western Command of the Indian Army was established on 15 April 2005 and became fully operational on 15 August 2005. It was established in response to the emerging threats and opportunities on the Western Indo-Pak border, and is headquartered at Jaipur, Rajasthan.

The command's operational unit, X Corps, transferred from Western Command and from an Artillery Division.

Structure

Currently, the Western Command has been assigned operational units under:- X Corps and 42nd Artillery Division. The command in total has following units under its belt :- 3 infantry divisions (1 for Mountain warfare), 1 armoured division, 1 artillery division, 2 Reorganised Army Plains Infantry Division (RAPID), 1 armoured brigade, 1 Air-defence brigade, and 1 engineering brigade.

In 2021, except the 33 Armoured Division all the units of I Corps was transferred to Northern Command to focus on the Sino-Indian border at Ladakh.

List of Commanders

Notes

1. ^ Renaldi and Rikhye 2011, 21
2. Dolare, Rahul (1 January 2024). "Lieutenant General Prit Pal Singh Assumes Command of Sudarshan Chakra Corps".
3. "The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Punjab". tribuneindia.com. Archived from the original on 7 September 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
4. ^ "PressReader - the Times of India (New Delhi edition): 2008-09-01 - New GOC-in-chief of South Western Command". Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017 – via PressReader.
5. "Sainik Samachar". Archived from the original on 24 October 2017.
6. "The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) | Jharkhand | School gets new campus". telegraphindia.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
7. "Lt Gen S K Singh takes over as Army SW Command chief". Deccan Herald. 3 December 2010. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
8. "Lt Gen Gyan Bhushan takes over as SW command's new GOC-in-C". Moneycontrol. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
9. "SW Army Commander Arun Kumar Sahni retires". Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
10. Singh, Mahim Pratap (1 January 2014). "Change of guard at South-Western command of Army". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
11. "Lt Gen Arun Kumar Sahni designated as GOC-in-C, South Western Command | NetIndian". netindian.in. 13 December 2013. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
12. "Lt Gen Sarath Chand new GOC-in C of South Western Command". Archived from the original on 2 February 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
13. "Lt Gen Abhay Krishna takes over Army's South Western Command". The Economic Times. 2017. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
14. "Lt Gen Cherish Mathson takes over Army's South Western Command". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
15. "Lt Gen Mathson relinquishes command of Sapta Shakti Command in Jaipur". 31 August 2019.
16. "Kler is new chief of Sapta Shakti Command". The Times of India. 1 September 2019.
17. "Lt Gen Yogendra Dimri appointed as next Commander-in-chief of Lucknow-based Central Army Command". ANI News. 27 February 2021. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
18. "Lt. Gen. Raju shifted, new Vice-Chief named". The Hindu. 16 February 2023. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
19. "Lt General Dhiraj Seth takes over as South Western Army chief". Hindustan Times. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
20. Service, Statesman News (1 July 2024). "Lt Gen Manjinder Singh assumes charge of South-Western Command". The Statesman. Retrieved 1 July 2024.

References

• Richard A. Renaldi and Ravi Rikhe, 'Indian Army Order of Battle,' Orbat.com for Tiger Lily Books: A division of General Data LLC, ISBN 978-0-9820541-7-8, 2011.

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