Citizen’s Army celebrates its 67th anniversary in India today

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NEW DELHI: The Indian Territorial Army is celebrating its 67th anniversary on Sunday morning, 09 October 2016. The 67th ‘Territorial Army Day’ was celebrated with a superlative parade that unfolded at the Army Parade Ground at Delhi Cantonment, Delhi today morning.
It is considerable that the Indian Territorial Army was formally raised by the first Indian Governor General Shri C Rajagopalachari on 09 Oct 1949. Indian Territorial Army: Role: The Indian Territorial Army mainly called the ‘Citizen’s Army’. It is part of the Indian Army and its present role is to relieve the Regular Army from quiescent duties and help civil administration in dealing with natural calamities and maintenance of essential services in circumstances where life of the communities is affected or the security of the country is threatened. Strength and Structure of TA: At the present time, the TA has strength of about 40000 persons comprising of Departmental TA units such as Railway, IOC and ONGC units and the non-Departmental TA units of Infantry Battalion (TA) and Ecological Battalion (TA) affiliated to various Infantry regiments. TA History: The Territorial Army was raised by the Britishers in 1920 through Indian Territorial Act of 1920 and it was organised into two wings - first ‘The Auxiliary Force’ for Europeans & Anglo-Indians and other ‘The Indian Territorial Force’ for Indian Volunteers. The TA initially had various types of units such as-Armed Regimentt (TA), Infantry Battalion (TA), Air Defence (TA), Med Regt (TA), Engineers Field Park Coy (TA), Signal Regiment (TA), EME Workshop (TA), Coast Battery (TA), ASC GT Company (TA), ASC Composite Platoon (TA), AMC Field Ambulance (TA), by 1972 these units had either been disbanded or converted to Regular Army except Infantry Bn (TA).
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