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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.[1][2]

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 km2).[3]

As of 2019, there were sixty-one "notified cantonments" in India, occupying an area of 157,000 acres (640 km2):[4] twenty-five in Central Command, nineteen in Southern Command, thirteen in Western Command, four in Eastern Command, and one in Northern Command.[5]

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.[6][7][8] However, on 27 April 2024, KhasYol had become the first cantonment board to be "de-notified".[9]

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."[3]

Major cantonments and garrisons include the following:[10]

Notified cantonments

  1. Agra Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
  2. Almora Cantonment, Uttarakhand
  3. Ayodhya Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
  4. Bareilly Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
  5. Chakrata Cantonment, Uttarakhand
  6. Clement Town Cantonment, Uttarakhand (To be denotified)[3]
  7. Danapur Cantonment, Bihar
  8. Dehradun Cantonment, Uttarakhand (To be denotified)[3]
  9. Fatehgarh Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified)[3]
  10. Gopalpur Cantonment, Odisha
  11. Jabalpur Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh
  12. Kanpur Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
  13. Landour Cantonment, Uttarakhand
  14. Lansdowne Cantonment, Uttarakhand
  15. Lucknow Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
  16. Mathura Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified)[3]
  17. Meerut Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
  18. Mhow Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh
  19. Nainital Cantonment, Uttarakhand
  20. Pachmarhi Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh
  21. Prayagraj Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
  22. Ramgarh Cantonment, Jharkhand (To be denotified)[3]
  23. Ranikhet Cantonment, Uttarakhand
  24. Roorkee Cantonment, Uttarakhand
  25. Shahajahanpur Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified)[3]
  26. Varanasi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
  1. Ahmedabad Cantonment, Gujarat
  2. Ahmednagar Cantonment, Maharashtra
  3. Ajmer Cantonment, Rajasthan (To be denotified)[3]
  4. Aurangabad Cantonment, Maharashtra
  5. Babina Cantonment, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh (To be denotified)[3]
  6. Belgaum Cantonment, Karnataka
  7. Bellary Cantonment, Karnataka (Inactive, De-notified)[11]
  8. Dehu Road Cantonment, Maharashtra
  9. Deolali Cantonment, Maharashtra (To be denotified)[3]
  10. Jhansi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
  11. Kamptee Cantonment, Maharashtra
  12. Kannur Cantonment, Kerala
  13. Kirkee Cantonment, Maharashtra
  14. Morar Cantonment, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
  15. Nasirabad Cantonment, Rajasthan (To be denotified)[3]
  16. Pune Cantonment, Maharashtra
  17. Sagar Cantonment, Madhya Pradesh
  18. Secunderabad Cantonment, Telangana
  19. St. Thomas Mount Cantonment, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
  20. Wellington Cantonment, Tamil Nadu
  1. Ambala Cantonment, Haryana
  2. Amritsar Cantonment, Punjab
  3. Bakloh Cantonment, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh
  4. Dagshai Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh
  5. Dalhousie Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh
  6. Delhi Cantonment, Delhi
  7. Ferozepur Cantonment, Punjab
  8. Jalandhar Cantonment, Punjab
  9. Jammu Cantonment, Jammu and Kashmir
  10. Jutogh Cantonment, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
  11. Kasauli Cantonment, Himachal Pradesh
  12. Subathu Cantonment, Shimla Hills, Himachal Pradesh
  13. KhasYol Cantonment, Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh (de-notified on 2023)[9]
  1. Barrackpore, West Bengal
  2. Dum Dum Cantonment, West Bengal (Inactive, De-notified)
  3. Jalapahar, Darjeeling, West Bengal
  4. Lebong, Darjeeling, West Bengal
  5. Shillong Cantonment, Meghalaya
  1. Badamibagh Cantonment, Jammu and Kashmir

Unlisted military cantonments

  1. Abohar Cantonment (Abohar, Punjab)
  2. Akhnoor Cantonment (Akhnoor, Jammu and Kashmir)
  3. Baddowal Cantonment (Ludhiana, Punjab)
  4. Bangalore Cantonment (Bangalore, Karnataka)
  5. Bikaner Cantonment (Bikaner, Rajasthan)
  6. Bharatpur Cantonment (Rajasthan)
  7. Bhatinda Cantonment (Bhatinda, Punjab)
  8. Binnaguri Cantonment (West Bengal)
  9. Bhuj Cantonment (Bhuj, Gujarat)
  10. Bhopal Cantonment (Madhya Pradesh)
  11. Beas Military Station (Punjab)
  12. Chandimandir Cantonment (Chandigarh)
  13. Dipatoli Cantonment (Ranchi, Jharkhand)
  14. Faridkot Cantonment (Faridkot, Punjab)
  15. Fazilka Cantonment (Fazilka, Punjab)
  16. Gandhinagar Cantonment (Gandhinagar, Gujarat)
  17. Gopalpur Cantonment (Brahmapur, Orissa)
  18. Hisar Cantonment (Hisar, Haryana)
  19. Itarana Cantonment (Alwar, Rajasthan)
  20. Jaipur Cantonment (Jaipur, Rajasthan)
  21. Jaisalmer Cantonment (Jaisalmer, Rajasthan)
  22. Jodhpur Cantonment (Rajasthan)
  23. Joshimath Cantonment (Joshimath, Uttarakhand)
  24. Kapurthala Cantonment (Kapurthala, Punjab)
  25. Khasa Cantonment (Amritsar, Punjab)
  26. Kollam Cantonment (Kollam, India)
  27. Ludhiana Cantonment (Punjab)
  28. Mamun Cantonment (Pathankot, Punjab)
  29. Missamari Cantonment (Missamari, Assam)
  30. Nagrota Cantonment (Nagrota, Jammu & Kashmir)
  31. Narengi Cantonment (Guwahati, Assam)
  32. Pathankot Cantonment (Pathankot, Punjab)
  33. Patiala Cantonment (Punjab)
  34. Pithoragarh Cantonment (Pithoragarh , Uttarakhand)
  35. Shahjahanpur Cantonment (Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh)
  36. Solmara Cantonment (Tezpur, Assam)
  37. Sri Ganganagar Cantonment (Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan)
  38. Suratgarh Cantonment (Suratgarh, Rajasthan)
  39. Thiruvananthapuram Cantonment (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala)
  40. Tibri Cantonment (Gurdaspur, Punjab)
  41. Udhampur Cantonment (Udhampur, Jammu & Kashmir)
  42. Udaipur Cantonment (Rajasthan)
  43. Vadodra Cantonment (Vadodra, Gujarat)
  44. Varanasi Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh, Central Command
  45. Siliguri Cantonment(West Bengal)
  46. Shillong Cantonment(Meghalaya)

References

  1. ^ Sheikh, Omer; Ali, Amna (26 October 2009). "Lahore Cantonment". geocities.com. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ "THE CANTONMENTS ACT, 1924" (PDF). indiacode.nic.in. India Code. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ray, Kalyan. "Ten army cantonments to be handed over to civil authorities". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Annual Report 2018-19: Ministry of Defence" (PDF). mod.gov.in. Ministry of Defence. p. 131. Retrieved 4 May 2022. The Ministry of Defence owns approximately 17.57 lakh acres of land throughout the country managed by the three Services and other Organizations like DGDE, Ordnance Factory Board, DRDO, DGQA, CGDA etc. The Army has the maximum of the land i.e. 14.147 lakh acres followed by Air Force 1.40 lakh acres and Navy 0.44 lakh acres. The defence land inside the notified Cantonments is approximately 1.57 lakh acres and the remaining around 16.00 lakh lies outside the Cantonments
  5. ^ "Directorate General Defence Estates Main menu". Directorate General Defence Estates. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  6. ^ "MOVING AWAY FROM THE BRITISH-ERA CONCEPT OF CANTONMENT TOWNS". Press Information Bureau. 24 July 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Defence Ministry denotifies civil areas of 10 cantonments". The Indian Express. 7 March 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  8. ^ "Military Cantonments To Lose Control On Civil Areas. What This Means". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Khasyol in Dharamshala 1st Cantonment in country to lose civilian area control". The Times of India. 29 April 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  10. ^ "Cantonment Boards". pib.gov.in. Press Information Bureau. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  11. ^ Malagi, Shivakumar G. (16 August 2017). "Ballari's jail walls have many a story to tell". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
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