Wednesday 6 April 2011

ORIGIN OF INDIA'S TERRITORIAL FORCES


Origin of India’s territorial forces can be traced back to the arrival of East India Company in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. After the charter to trade in India was granted, few merchant adventurers along the some surgeons embarked upon on a voyage under the flagship of John’s Company and arrived on an Indian coast. These surgeons eventually played a key role in obtaining many valuable concessions from the Mughal Empire due to their superior medical skills and the company managed to get a firmaan to establish their factories followed by forts. It is interesting to note that the successors of same surgeons were later formed into the Indian Medical Service (which in present form is the Army Medical Corps of the Indian Army) wherein they used to be mobilized as soldiers in times of crises.
In the year 1645, East India Company requested their Directors in London to allow them to form a body of trained band which could be given military tasks. The Board of Directors replied in affirmative and a Companie of Trained Band was constituted at Fort St George, Madras from among the civilian employees of the company. Their task was to safeguard company’s commercial interests from the ever aggressive French, Dutch, Portuguese and the local princely states.
This band was loosely based on the structure of Trained Bands which existed in England at that point of time and the training used to be conducted during weekends. The body was pivotal in defending the East India Company and making it a force to reckon with.
Somewhere in the forth decade of eighteenth century a man called Robert Clive arrived on the Indian scene and completely changed the destiny of this country. Making a humble beginning with a meager job of a lower division clerk, he volunteered for part-time military service in the Companie of Trained Band. Slowly but surely he kept on rising and was granted the Ensign’s commission due to his exploits against the French. The man created history by defeating Siraj-ud- Daula in the famous battle of Plassey near Murshidabad in 1757 wherein an army of around ten thousand soldiers with mostly part-timers defeated a much larger army of over a lakh aided by the French. The battle was a complete turnaround for the East India Company which now was ruling the eastern part of India.
1759 onwards, the company decided to restructure the part-time force and began raising of units organized on the lines of regular army. These units were created from among the nucleus of the existing part-time units and thus we can say that the present Indian armed forces actually evolved out of the part-timers…

(Published by the team of Territorials)

9 comments:

  1. During the Emergency, Territorial Army units were called up for full-time service and Territorial Army personnel were embodied for service in these units. These personnel on disembodiment have reverted to part-time service for long periods. Though, they were not in the permanent establishment of the Territorial Army, they should be considered as Discharged Central Government Employees, provided they were employed on a full-time basis against regular establishment for a continuous period of six months or more.

    Considering the useful training andexperience acquired during the service with the Territorial Army NESM/ Part.I/Vol.I 75the , Employment Officers should make special efforts to place ex-Territorial Army Personnel in suitable alternative employment.
    BUT the RBI -reserve bank of INDIA refuses to consider THE TA officers at par with commissioned officers in open & direct recruitment to the post of SECURITY manager

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  2. Officers in the TERRITORIAL ARMY are holding commission ,granted by the president of INDIA with designation of Rank corresponding to those of Indian commissioned officers of the regular Army , Granted Gratuity on their honorable retirement\ Discharge\Release after 05 years of aggregate embodied service / or 10 years of commissioned service alike Non pensioner SSCO\ECO
    BUT the DOPT in its defination EXCLUDES TA non pensioner & are denied the ststus of exserviceman

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  3. Pension & Gallantry award ;- are the compulsory criteria - for the personnel of Territorial Army to attain the status of Ex serviceman which can neither be assured Nor Guaranteed & seems practicably unfeasible abiding the Role\ service concept of Territorial ARMY

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  4. Legitimately there exist no difference between Officers Disgraced\cashiered\ court marshaled & discharged on other disciplinary grounds from Indian Armed forces & Honorably released TA officers as both are denied of Ex-Service men status and ensuing benefits

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  5. hi sir , i have done fill the form of T a sir iwant to know that which month will be come call letter

    subhash 09654756336

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  6. PIB will be within two months from the last date of submitting applications.

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  7. Sir, Why TA recruit confidentially i.e no open results.

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  8. I have already attended SSB 7 times but conference out, I wish to go for Territorial Army.
    Normally in TA we are called for any 2 months of service.
    But I want to know that in TA is there any option to serve for a continuous period of some years, (say continuous 20 years may be)

    I have also read on some blogs that a TA officer can be made a permanent officer if he serves in a good manner for 10 years.
    On the basis of that 10 years , that officer can be converted into permanent officer, is that true ?
    Please answer this , I am very passionate about Joining army

    I am pasting one of the blog link where I read this

    http://joindefence.com/can-territorial-army-officer-get-permanent-commision-regular-army-territorial-army-7110.html

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    1. Dear Ishan. Read my blog carefully and the comments in details. You will surely get the answers. Be careful about wrong information. TA is only a part time commitment n not a back door entry in the army. You may serve for a longer duration subject to requirements in the army n at present it is in plenty but don't take it for granted. Best of luck.

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