I Corps is a military field formation of the Indian Army. The Corps is headquartered at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. It was raised on 1 April 1965. It was still being raised when it was despatched to the front in 1965. Raised as the First Strike Corps of the Indian Army, it was launched into operations in the Sialkot sector. The Corps conducted a counteroffensive during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. In the 1971 war against Pakistan, it took part in the Battle of Basantar.[2]
The corps conducts Exercise Parvat Prahaar (Mountain Strike) to maintain combat readiness in the northern sector along Line of Actual Control. The exercise which is conducted in high-altitude, rugged terrain conditions, includes tanks, artillery (including K-9 Vajra T), air-defence systems and other assets. The editions of the exercise are 2022 and 2024.[3][4]
627th (Independent) Armoured Air Defence Brigade (formerly '627th (Independent) Mechanised Air Defence Brigade')
42 Artillery Division (Bassi, Rajasthan), also called Strategic Striker Division.
List of General Officers Commanding
Notes
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^"Archive of One Strike Corps of Indian Army in Mathura opens tomorrow". The Economic Times. 11 July 2018.
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^"Inter-Command Football Championship 2019". 2019-05-01. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
^"PPE kits prepared by SHGs in Kheri will be supplied to Army hospital in Lucknow: CDO". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 2020-04-03. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
^"Know Your Army exhibition". 2006-01-11. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
^"Army motivates youth at 'know your army'". The Times of India. 2019-01-12. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
^"Bharat Rakshak :: Land Forces Site - Armoured Formations". bharat-rakshak.com. Archived from the original on 29 September 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
^"Lt Gen Khem Karan Singh: An outstanding military leader". 2018-10-20. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
^"Lt Gen Anand Sarup retires" (PDF). 1987-03-29. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
^"GENERAL V.N. SHARMA". Retrieved 2021-06-26.
^"Lt Gen Mahajan appointed DCOAS" (PDF). 1988-12-11. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
^"Lt Gen R Sharma is new DCOAS" (PDF). 1991-08-02. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Know Your Army". 2008-04-08. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Gen J J Singh new GOC-in-C of Western Command". The Times of India. 2004-02-01. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Gen Vij takes over tomorrow". 2002-12-29. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"GOC-in-C on two-day city visit". 2006-03-15. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Lt Gen Katoch visits Cantonment". 2006-05-10. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Lt Gen SR Ghosh to be GOC-in-C of Western Command". The Times of India. 2009-11-12. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Cover Story : Mutual Respect". 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Lt Gen Ashok Singh takes over as Southern Army commander". 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Army Aviation Corps Colonel Commandant". Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"LIEUTENANT GENERAL RAVI THODGE TAKES OVER REINS OF 1 CORPS". 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Lt Gen A B Shivane, PVSM, AVSM, VSM". Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Lt Gen Shokin Chauhan". 2019-10-05. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Lt General Ranbir Singh promoted to GOC Strike 1 Corps, AK Bhatt new DGMO". 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Lt General Taranjit Singh assumes Command Of Strike 1". 2017-12-29. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Amardeep Bhinder takes command of Strike One Corps Mathura". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
^"Lieutenant general C P Cariappa takes over Mathura based command of first strike corps". The Times of India. 2020-04-03. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
^"Lt Gen Manoj Kumar Katiyar takes charge of Mathura-based Strike 1 Corps". Outlook (India). Retrieved 2021-04-05.
^"Lieutenant General Gajendra Joshi assumed the command of the prestigious STRIKEONE today". 2022-05-09. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
^"Lt Gen Sanjay Mitra takes over as Commander of Strike 1 Corps". The Print. 2023-06-09. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
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.