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Tasked with educating and instructing Army personnel in a diverse range of skills, the RAEC is now part of the Adjutant General's Corps.
Potted History
1845.07.02 Corps of Army Schoolmasters staffed by Warrant Officers and senior NCOs
1848 Army Schoolmistresses formed where required in support of the corps
1920.06.15 Army Educational Corps staffed by commissioned and non-commissioned personnel
1928 Queen's Army Schoolmistresses
1946.11.28 Royal Army Educational Corps
1962 Staffed exclusively by commissioned officers
1992.04.06 Educational and Training Services Branch, Adjutant General's Corps
The earliest record of Armyeducation, however, goes back to 1762 when the first Regimental School was established at Fort William in Calcutta as a welfare measure to provide education to the European soldiers and their families.
In harmony with this, the War Office, the Army Headquarters, India, sanctioned in 1920 the raising of an Indian ArmyEducationalCorps (IAEC) and the establishment of the Army School of Education for Indians at Belgaum in Mysore with the British Wing at Wellington in the Nilgiris.
The Corps was renamed as the ArmyEducationalCorps on January 26, 1950 by a Presidential decree.
The army is headquartered in New Delhi and is under the direction of the chief of the army staff, always a full general.
The chief of the army staff is assisted by a vice chief, two deputy chiefs, a military secretary, and the heads of four main staff divisions: the adjutant general, the quartermaster general, the master general of ordnance, and the engineer in chief.
The army has five tactical area commands: the Northern Command headquartered at Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir, the Western Command headquartered at Chandimandir in Chandigarh, the Central Command headquartered at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, the Eastern Command headquartered at Calcutta, and the Southern Command headquartered at Pune in Maharashtra.
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