About Bathinda Military Station:
- Location:
- It is located in Bathinda, Punjab.
- It is about 280km from the capital Delhi and 100km east of the border with Pakistan.
- It is the headquarters of the 10 Corps of the Army, better known as Chetak Corps.
- The military station is a vital operational as well as a logistics base for the Army units responsible for the defence of southern Punjab and adjoining Rajasthan.
- Apart from the organisation set-up of the Corps HQs and the attendant units, the military station has a number of units from infantry, armoured, artillery, army aviation, engineers, signals and other divisions located across its vast area.
- A vital ammunition dump is also part of the Bathinda military station.
- History:
- During British rule, Bathinda and its surrounding areas remained under the British flag and away from the Khalsa Raj of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
- During World War 1, it served as an important recruitment hub, feeding thousands of youth into the military supply chain for the British war machine.
- Gradually, Bathinda also became an important transit point for military forces focussed on the northwestern frontiers of undivided India.
