{"id":8621,"date":"2023-04-15T08:38:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T03:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:36:59","slug":"where-is-bathinda-military-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/where-is-bathinda-military-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Bathinda Military Station?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Bathinda Military Station:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is located in <strong>Bathinda, Punjab.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is about <strong>280km<\/strong> <strong>from<\/strong> the capital <strong>Delhi<\/strong> and <strong>100km<\/strong> east of the border <strong>with<\/strong> <strong>Pakistan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>headquarters of the 10 Corps of the Army<\/strong>, better known as <strong>Chetak Corps<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The military station is a <strong>vital operational as well as a logistics base<\/strong> for the Army units responsible for <strong>the defence of southern Punjab<\/strong> and <strong>adjoining Rajasthan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Apart from the organisation set-up of the Corps HQs and the attendant units, the military station <strong>has a number of units from infantry, armoured, artillery, army aviation<\/strong>, engineers, signals and other divisions located across its vast area.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A vital ammunition dump<\/strong> is also part of the Bathinda military station.<\/li>\n<li><strong>History<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>During British rule, <strong>Bathinda and its surrounding areas remained under the British flag<\/strong> and away from the Khalsa Raj of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.<\/li>\n<li>During <strong>World War 1, it served as an important recruitment hub<\/strong>, feeding thousands of youth into the military supply chain for the British war machine.<\/li>\n<li>Gradually, <strong>Bathinda<\/strong> also <strong>became an important transit point for military forces<\/strong> focussed on the northwestern frontiers of undivided India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is an Army Corp?<\/h3>\n<p>The army corps is the largest regular army formation, though in wartime two or more corps may be combined to form a field army.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/bathinda-military-station-firing-four-jawans-shot-dead-identified-101681301231095.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Bathinda military station firing: Four jawans who were shot, killed identified<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bathinda Military Station is the headquarters of the 10 Corps of the Army, better known as Chetak Corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}