Indian Army Plans to Have Self-sustaining Integrated Battle Groups

According to a source, the formation's test-bedding is ongoing, and everything is being carried out at a deliberate pace to ensure the long-term goal of creating a lean and swift offensive formation. The Ministry of Defence announced that all formations of the IA would be structured on an IBG model in a phased manner to reform the Indian Army into a leaner and agile army driven by technology. The IBGs are commanded by a Major General, and each group has a troop strength of around 5,000 and a mix of every arm and service like Infantry, Artillery, Armoured, Engineers, Signals, Air Defence, and others. The forces reassigned and reconstituted would be smaller but swifter with greater combat thrust. The Army has decided to reconstitute its standing forces into 12 modernised IBGs, with four IBGs under the nine Corps, five or six under 33 Corps, and three under the 17 Corps. One IBG is being raised under the nine Corps mandated to operate on the Western Borders with Pakistan, and the other is being raised under the 17 Corps to operate along the Northern borders with China.