# Adjutant-General (India)

The Adjutant-General of the Indian Army is the senior administration officer who reports to the Chief of Army Staff and is also the Colonel of the Corps of Military Police and Judge Advocate General.

## Role, organisation and function

The office of the Adjutant General deals with a wide spectrum of issues relating to Army, which includes manpower planning, human resource policy, recruitment, discipline, matters relating to Judge Advocate General's Department, Provost Marshal Directorate (Corps of Military Police), missing defence personnel, service matters relating to personnel and welfare of serving soldiers.
The Adjutant-General's office is organised as follows:
* Director General (Manpower Planning and Personnel Services)
** Additional Directorate General Manpower
** Additional Directorate General of Recruiting
** Additional Directorate General Personnel and Services
* Director General (Discipline, Ceremonial and Welfare)
** Additional Directorate General (Discipline and Vigilance)
** Additional Directorate General (Ceremonial and Welfare)
** Provost Marshal
** Judge Advocate General's Department
** Managing Director, Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS)
* Director General Medical Services
* Director General Dental Services
* Army Group Insurance
* Directorate of Indian Army Veterans
** Policy and Outreach
** Pension and Entitlements
** Benefits and Services
** Career Transition Planning Sections
* Army Welfare Education Society
* Army Welfare Housing Organisation

## Adjutants-General prior to Independence

Adjutants-General before the independence of India have included:
| Rank | Name | Appointment Date | Left Office |
| Colonel | Sir Henry George Smith | 6 March 1840 | 7 April 1846 |
| Colonel | Charles Robert Cureton | 7 April 1846 | 22 November 1848 |
| Colonel | Armine Simcoe Henry Mountain | 2 February 1849 | 8 February 1854 |
| Colonel | Frederick Markham | 7 April 1854 | 28 November 1854 |
| Colonel | Henry Havelock | 28 November 1854 | 30 July 1857 |
| Colonel | Sir Edward Lugard | 31 July 1857 | 22 October 1858 |
| Colonel | The Hon. William Lygon Pakenham | 22 October 1858 | 1860 |
| Colonel | Edmund Haythorne | 22 June 1860 | Jan 1866 |
| Colonel | Henry Errington Longden | Jan 1866 | Mar 1869 |
| Major-General | The Hon. Frederic Augustus Thesiger | Mar 1869 | Mar 1874 |
| Major-General | Edwin Beaumont Johnson | Mar 1874 | Sep 1874 |
| Major-General | Sir Peter Stark Lumsden | Sep 1874 | Oct 1879 |
| Major-General | Sir George Richards Greaves | Oct 1879 | Nov 1884 |
| Major-General | Sir Thomas Durand Baker | Nov 1884 | Feb 1887 |
| Major-General | William Kidston Elles | Feb 1887 | Oct 1890 |
| Major-General | William Galbraith | Oct 1890 | Apr 1895 |
| Major-General | Gerald de Courcy Morton | Apr 1895 | Nov 1898 |
| Major-General | Sir William Nicholson | 4 Nov 1898 | 9 Nov 1901 |
| Major-General | Sir Edmond Elles (acting Adjutant-General) | 4 Jan 1900 | Apr 1901 |
| Major-General | Beauchamp Duff (acting Adjutant-General) | Apr 1901 | Nov 1901 |
| Major-General | Horace Smith-Dorrien | 9 Nov 1901 | Jun 1903 |
| Major-General | Beauchamp Duff | Jun 1903 | Mar 1906 |
| Major-General | Alfred Martin | Apr 1906 | May 1908 |
| Major-General | Robert Scallon | Jun 1908 | Mar 1909 |
| Lieutenant-General | Sir Arthur Barrett | Apr 1909 | Feb 1912 |
| Major-General | Fenton Aylmer | Mar 1912 | Nov 1915 |
| Major-General | John Walter | Nov 1915 | Feb 1917 |
| Lieutenant-General | Sir Havelock Hudson | Feb 1917 | Nov 1920 |
| Lieutenant-General | Sir Walter Delamain | Nov 1920 | Mar 1923 |
| Lieutenant-General | Sir George Barrow | Mar 1923 | Feb 1924 |
| General | Sir John Shea | Feb 1924 | May 1928 |
| General | Sir Robert Cassels | May 1928 | May 1930 |
| General | Sir Norman MacMullen | May 1930 | Apr 1932 |
| General | Sir Walter Leslie | Apr 1932 | Apr 1936 |
| Lieutenant-General | Sir John Brind | Apr 1936 | Oct 1937 |
| General | Sir Roger Wilson | Oct 1937 | Mar 1941 |
| Lieutenant-General | Brodie Haig | May 1941 | Oct 1941 |
| Lieutenant-General | Sir William Baker | Oct 1941 | Mar 1944 |
| Lieutenant-General | Sir Ralph Deedes | Mar 1944 | Mar 1946 |
| Lieutenant-General | Sir Reginald Savory | Mar 1946 | 1947 |

## Adjutants-General after Independence

Adjutants-General after independence have included:
| Rank | Name | Appointment Date | Left Office | Unit of Commission |
| Major General | Hira Lal Atal | | | 16th Light Cavalry |
| Major General | S M Shrinagesh | January 1948 | August 1948 | 19th Hyderabad Regiment |
| Major General | Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri | January 1952 | January 1953 | 7th Light Cavalry |
| Lieutenant General | Kanwar Bahadur Singh | | 1 October 1959 | 19th Hyderabad Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | P P Kumaramangalam | 5 October 1959 | 30 April 1963 | Regiment of Artillery |
| Lieutenant General | Kashmir Singh Katoch | 1 May 1963 | November 1963 | East Surrey Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | Har Prasad | | December 1970 | 3rd Cavalry |
| Lieutenant General | Har Krishen Sibal | December 1970 | June 1972 | 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) |
| Lieutenant General | Srinivas Kumar Sinha | | July 1980 | Jat Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | K Balaram | | July 1985 | Corps of Signals |
| Lieutenant General | SK Mazumdar | | 1988 | Bengal Sappers |
| Lieutenant General | Manohar Lal Chibber | | | 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) |
| Lieutenant General | Bhartruhari Trimbak Pandit | 1990 | March 1992 | Corps of Engineers |
| Lieutenant General | R V Kulkarni | March 1992 | April 1993 | Garhwal Rifles |
| Lieutenant General | Madan Mohan Lakhera | June 1993 | October 1995 | Kumaon Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | Krishna Mohan Seth | October 1995 | 31 December 1997 | Regiment of Artillery |
| Lieutenant General | S S Grewal | 1 January 1998 | 30 April 2002 | Jammu and Kashmir Rifles |
| Lieutenant General | A Natarajan | 1 May 2002 | 31 January 2004 | Regiment of Artillery |
| Lieutenant General | Mohinder Singh | 3 February 2004 | 30 October 2005 | Punjab Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | A S Jamwal | 31 October 2005 | 31 August 2006 | Regiment of Artillery |
| Lieutenant General | Thomas Mathew | 1 September 2006 | January 2009 | Rajput Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | Mukesh Sabharwal | January 2009 | 2011 | Rajput Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | Jai Prakash Nehra | 2011 | May 2013 | Madras Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | Sanjeev Anand | 2013 | 2014 | Mechanised Infantry Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | Gurmit Singh | July 2014 | 2015 | Assam Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | Rakesh Sharma | 2015 | March 2017 | 11th Gorkha Rifles |
| Lieutenant General | Ashwani Kumar | 2017 | 31 October 2019 | Corps of Army Air Defence |
| Lieutenant General | Arvind Dutta | 1 January 2020 | November 2020 | Dogra Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | Harsha Gupta | December 2020 | March 2022 | Sikh Light Infantry |
| Lieutenant General | Bansi Ponnappa | April 2022 | 31 July 2024 | Mahar Regiment |
| Lieutenant General | VPS Kaushik | 3 August 2024 | Incumbent | Kumaon Regiment |