# List of Cantonments in India

Several cities in the Indian subcontinent, including Ahmedabad, Ambala, Bellary, Belgaum, Bangalore, Danapur, Jabalpur, Kanpur, Bathinda, Delhi, Nilgiris, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Meerut, Ramgarh, Secunderabad, and Trichy, contained large cantonments of the former British Indian Army, with Meerut and Ramgarh being two of the most important cantonments in Northern India, second only to the headquarters at Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). Meerut was established in 1803, and for 150 years was the largest cantonment in the region. Although cantonments in India were considered to be semi-permanent in the 18th and 19th centuries, by the turn of the 20th century, they had transitioned to being permanent garrisons. They were further entrenched as such, via the military reforms of Lord Kitchener in 1903, and the Cantonments Act of 1924.
At India's Independence in 1947, India had 56 cantonments. After this India added 6 cantonments the last being Ajmer Cantonment in 1962, taking the total number to 62. They covered an area of 161,000 acres (650 km$^2$).
As of 2019, there were sixty-one "notified cantonments" in India, occupying an area of 157,000 acres (640 km$^2$): twenty-five in Central Command, nineteen in Southern Command, thirteen in Western Command, four in Eastern Command, and one in Northern Command.
On 24 July 2024, a press release notified that, in order to move on from older Colonial-era concepts, Ministry of Defence has decided to give up responsibility to consider to excise civil areas of certain Cantonments and merge them with neighbouring State municipalities. As of then, there were 58 Cantonments of which 10 were to be handed over in the first phase. The administration of civil areas was to be handed over from Cantonment Boards to the neighbouring Municipalities while the military region was to remain with the Armed Forces. However, on 27 April 2024, KhasYol had become the first cantonment board to be "de-notified".
On 2 September 2024, it was reported that paperwork are being completed to handover civilian areas of Cantonments from the Indian Army. The Cantonments include Dehradun, Deolali, Nasirabad, Babina, Ajmer, Ramgarh, Mathura, Shahjahanpur, Clement Town and Fatehgarh. The report sain, "Indian Army's Central Command, South Western Command and Southern Command are in the process of completing the hand over exercise in coordination with Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh governments."
Major cantonments and garrisons include the following:

## Notified cantonments

* Central Command
* Agra Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
* Almora Cantonment, Uttarakhand
* Ayodhya Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
* Bareilly Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
* Chakrata Cantonment, Uttarakhand
* Clement Town Cantonment, Uttarakhand (To be denotified)
* Danapur Cantonment, Bihar
* Dehradun Cantonment, Uttarakhand (To be denotified)
* Fatehgarh Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified)
* Gopalpur Cantonment, Odisha
* Jabalpur Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh
* Kanpur Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
* Landour Cantonment, Uttarakhand
* Lansdowne Cantonment, Uttarakhand
* Lucknow Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
* Mathura Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified)
* Meerut Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
* Mhow Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh
* Nainital Cantonment, Uttarakhand
* Pachmarhi Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh
* Prayagraj Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
* Ramgarh Cantonment, Jharkhand (To be denotified)
* Ranikhet Cantonment, Uttarakhand
* Roorkee Cantonment, Uttarakhand
* Shahajahanpur Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified)
* Varanasi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
* Southern Command
* Ahmedabad Cantonment, Gujarat
* Ahmednagar Cantonment, Maharashtra
* Ajmer Cantonment, Rajasthan (To be denotified)
* Aurangabad Cantonment, Maharashtra
* Babina Cantonment, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified)
* Belgaum Cantonment, Karnataka
* Bellary Cantonment, Karnataka (Inactive, De-notified)
* Dehu Road Cantonment, Maharashtra
* Deolali Cantonment, Maharashtra (To be denotified)
* Jhansi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
* Kamptee Cantonment, Maharashtra
* Kannur Cantonment, Kerala
* Kirkee Cantonment, Maharashtra
* Morar Cantonment, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
* Nasirabad Cantonment, Rajasthan (To be denotified)
* Pune Cantonment, Maharashtra
* Sagar Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh
* Secunderabad Cantonment, Telangana
* St. Thomas Mount Cantonment, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
* Wellington Cantonment, Tamil Nadu
* Western Command
* Ambala Cantonment, Haryana
* Amritsar Cantonment, Punjab
* Bakloh Cantonment, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh
* Dagshai Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh
* Dalhousie Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh
* Delhi Cantonment, Delhi
* Ferozepur Cantonment, Punjab
* Jalandhar Cantonment, Punjab
* Jammu Cantonment, Jammu and Kashmir
* Jutogh Cantonment, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
* Kasauli Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh
* Subathu Cantonment, Shimla Hills, Himachal Pradesh
* KhasYol Cantonment, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh (de-notified on 2023)
* Eastern Command
* Barrackpore, West Bengal
* Dum Dum Cantonment, West Bengal (Inactive, De-notified)
* Jalapahar, Darjeeling, West Bengal
* Lebong, Darjeeling, West Bengal
* Shillong Cantonment, Meghalaya
* Northern Command
* Badamibagh Cantonment, Jammu and Kashmir

## Unlisted military cantonments

* Abohar Cantonment (Abohar, Punjab)
* Akhnoor Cantonment (Akhnoor, Jammu and Kashmir)
* Baddowal Cantonment (Ludhiana, Punjab)
* Bangalore Cantonment (Bangalore, Karnataka)
* Bikaner Cantonment (Bikaner, Rajasthan)
* Bharatpur Cantonment (Rajasthan)
* Bhatinda Cantonment (Bhatinda, Punjab)
* Binnaguri Cantonment (West Bengal)
* Bhuj Cantonment (Bhuj, Gujarat)
* Bhopal Cantonment (Madhya Pradesh)
* Beas Military Station (Punjab)
* Chandimandir Cantonment (Chandigarh)
* Dipatoli Cantonment (Ranchi, Jharkhand)
* Faridkot Cantonment (Faridkot, Punjab)
* Fazilka Cantonment (Fazilka, Punjab)
* Gandhinagar Cantonment (Gandhinagar, Gujarat)
* Gopalpur Cantonment (Brahmapur, Orissa)
* Hisar Cantonment (Hisar, Haryana)
* Itarana Cantonment (Alwar, Rajasthan)
* Jaipur Cantonment (Jaipur, Rajasthan)
* Jaisalmer Cantonment (Jaisalmer, Rajasthan)
* Jodhpur Cantonment (Rajasthan)
* Joshimath Cantonment (Joshimath, Uttarakhand)
* Kapurthala Cantonment (Kapurthala, Punjab)
* Khasa Cantonment (Amritsar, Punjab)
* Kollam Cantonment (Kollam, India)
* Ludhiana Cantonment (Punjab)
* Mamun Cantonment (Pathankot, Punjab)
* Missamari Cantonment (Missamari, Assam)
* Nagrota Cantonment (Nagrota, Jammu & Kashmir)
* Narengi Cantonment (Guwahati, Assam)
* Pathankot Cantonment (Pathankot, Punjab)
* Patiala Cantonment (Punjab)
* Pithoragarh Cantonment (Pithoragarh , Uttarakhand)
* Shahjahanpur Cantonment (Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh)
* Solmara Cantonment (Tezpur, Assam)
* Sri Ganganagar Cantonment (Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan)
* Suratgarh Cantonment (Suratgarh, Rajasthan)
* Thiruvananthapuram Cantonment (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala)
* Tibri Cantonment (Gurdaspur, Punjab)
* Udhampur Cantonment (Udhampur, Jammu & Kashmir)
* Udaipur Cantonment (Rajasthan)
* Vadodra Cantonment (Vadodra, Gujarat)
* Varanasi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
* Siliguri Cantonment(West Bengal)
* Shillong Cantonment(Meghalaya)