13 Amazing Facts about The Indian Army You Didn't Know

Fact4:

Indian Army has nine army bases and fifty three cantonments that stretch throughout the country.

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Indian Army controls Siachen, which is the highest battleground in the world and is 6,000 meters in height.  Most of the Siachen Glacier falls under the Line of Control. The army installs around 3,000 troops in this area and the government spends crores of rupees to maintain its base in Siachen.

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Indian Army trains a range of foreign armies at their training institutes, such as the Bharatiya Military Academy at Dehradun and the Counter-insurgency and Jungle Warfare School in Vairengte, Mizoram.  

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Post-independence and after the subsequent partition of India, in 1947, four of the ten Gurkha regiments were transferred to the British Army. The rest of the British Indian Army was divided between the newly created nations of Republic of India and Republic of Pakistan.

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Indian army recruits candidates without any requirements for reservations, based on caste, creed or religion. The candidates are selected based on merit and their physical fitness.  

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