Garrison engineer

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A Garrison Engineer is a Central Government Officer and is responsible for the whole infrastructure of the Indian Armed Forces and has the rank of Executive Engineer(Major) or Executive Engineer{Selection Grade}(Lt Col) in the prestigious[1]Indian Defence Service of Engineers. Garrison Engineer is a designation which is held either by a defence civilian officer of M.E.S. or by a Military officer of the rank of Lt Col. The Garrison engineer's staff at least three Assistant Garrison Engineers (captain), a Barrack Stores officer (captain ), an accounts officer, and junior engineers. Responsibility of the position is to maintain the infrastructure of the Indian Armed Forces and make them more better. One of the elected members of the cantonment board has to be a former Garrison Engineer.

The first Indian to become an officiating garrison engineer was Rai Bahadur Pandit Ram Prasad Tewari, who served in the Military Engineer Services from 1880 to 1920.[2][3]

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  1. Indian Defence Service of Engineers (IDSE) is a highly prestigious engineering services who are the backbone of the infrastructure of the Indian Armed Forces and are selected through the prestigious Indian Engineering Services examination conducted by UPSC and initially posted as Assistant Director(staff appointment) or Assistant Garrison Engineer (executive appointment) and then promoted up to Director General (Pers)(HAG level post). These officers, when on an executive appointment, are responsible for overall functioning of their offices by way of providing B/R or E/m services in garrison or on project, While on staff appointment they are associated with planning, structural design, legal and pers matters. Offrs who are promoted to EE from AE(departmental promote from JE level) automatically become part of IDSE Gp A services.
  2. "Testimonial and Services of Rai Bahadur Pandit Ram Prasad Tewari, G. E., M. E. S., Darbari (1880-1920)" (PDF).
  3. "Testimonial and Services of Rai Bahadur Pandit Ram Prasad Tewari, G. E., M. E. S., Darbari (1880-1920)" (PDF).
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