Military academies in India


The Indian military services have established numerous academies and staff colleges across India for the purpose of training professional soldiers in military sciences, warfare command and strategy, and associated technologies.

Education and training

Rashtriya Indian Military College: The Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun was founded on 13 March 1922 with the object of providing necessary preliminary recruit training for Indians wishing to become officers in Indian Armed Forces. The institution now runs school classes from 8th to 12th on 10+2 CBSE pattern and serves as a feeder institution to the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, where males who have passed 12th class of school are taken as cadets to receive their initial training for the Army, Navy and Air Force.
The Sainik Schools are a system of schools in India established and managed by the Sainik Schools Society under Ministry of Defence. They were conceived in 1961 by V. K. Krishna Menon, the then Defence Minister of India, to rectify the regional and class imbalance amongst the Officer cadre of the Indian Military, and to prepare students for entry into the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune and Indian Naval Academy. Today there are 25 such schools covering all the states of the country.
The schools come under the purview of respective state governments and Ministry of Defence, and in his Union Budget of 2008, Finance minister, P Chidambaram, allocated Rs 2 crore to each of the 22 Sainik schools, to counter rising attrition in the defence forces, especially at the officer level.
Following are the Sainik Schools under Sainik Schools Society, Ministry of Defence
CityStateDate established
SataraMaharashtra23-Jun-1961
KunjpuraHaryana03-Jul-1961
KapurthalaPunjab08-Jul-1961
BalachadiGujarat08-Jul-1961
ChittorgarhRajasthan07-Aug-1961
KorukondaAndhra Pradesh18-Jan-1962
KazhakootamKerala26-Jan-1962
PuruliaWest Bengal29-Jan-1962
BhubaneswarOdisha01-Feb-1962
AmaravathinagarTamil Nadu16-Jul-1962
RewaMadhya Pradesh20-Jul-1962
TilaiyaJharkhand16-Sep-1963
GoddaJharkhand-
BijapurKarnataka16-Sep-1963
GoalparaAssam12-Nov-1964
GhorakhalUttarakhand21-Mar-1966
NagrotaJammu & Kashmir22-Aug-1970
ImphalManipur07-Oct-1971
Sujanpur TiraHimachal Pradesh02-July-1978
NalandaBihar12-Oct-2003
GopalganjBihar12-Oct-2003
PunglwaNagaland02-Apr-2007
KodaguKarnataka18-Oct-2007
AmbikapurChhattisgarh01-Sep-2008
RewariHaryana29-Aug-2009
KalikiriAndhra Pradesh2009
SambalpurOdishaProposed
AlwarRajasthanProposed
JhunjhunuRajasthanProposed

Integrated national institute

at Gurugram in Haryana is likely to commence courses from 2018-19 as an autonomous integrated national institute. At least 66% students will be from the Indian Armed Forces and the remaining 33% will be from the Paramilitary forces of India, Police in India and civilians. Functioning on the similar principals as Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management, the university will offer post-graduate studies, doctoral and post-doctoral research as well as higher studies through distance learning to military and civilians to be imparted by the mixed teaching faculty composed of military officials and civilians in the ratio of 1:1.
Courses will include war gaming and simulation, neighborhood studies, counter insurgency and counter terrorism, Chinese studies, evaluation of strategic thought, international security issues, maritime security studies, Eurasian studies, South East Asian studies, material acquisition, joint logistics, and national security strategy in peace and war.
Following existing institutes will be affiliated to the university:
The chief institutions training Indian Army officers are:
Others include:
The Indian Navy has numerous training establishments at various places. The Indian Naval Academy is presently located in Ezhimala, near Kannur in Kerala State.
The Indian Air Force has a Training Command and several training establishments. While technical and other support staff are trained at the various Ground Training Schools, the pilots are trained at the Air Force Academy located at Dundigal, near Hyderabad, Telangana.
The Indian Coast Guard has planned to set up a training establishment for Indian Coast Guard personnel at Kannur district of Kerala.
The AFMC is located in Pune, Maharashtra. It is an inter-services institution. AFMC has multiple roles to perform. They are primarily training of medical undergraduates and post-graduates, dental postgraduates, nursing cadets and paramedical staff. Patient care forms an integral part of its training curriculum and the attached hospital benefits from the expertise available at AFMC. The institution is responsible for providing the entire pool of specialists and super-specialists to Armed Forces by giving them in-service training.
The AFMC is well known as one of the premier medical institutions of India, and its entrance test is given by thousands of high school students throughout India, who compete for its 130 seats. Selected candidates are also required to pass a medical and fitness test, which is at par with the one for Officer Cadets. On the completion of the five-year course, the medical cadets are granted short service commission for seven years or permanent commission in the Indian Army, Navy, or Air Force, which includes a one year internship, after which the officers are detailed for Medical Officers' Basic Course at the Officers' Training School at AMC Centre and School at Lucknow for basic military training as well as training in battle-field medicine.