XVI Corps (India)

XVI Corps
Indian Army XVI Corps Formation Sign
Active	1972 – present
Country	India
Branch	Indian Army
Role	Anti-aircraft warfare Anti-tank warfare Artillery observer Close-quarters combat Combined arms Counter-battery fire Counterinsurgency Disaster response Indirect fire Jungle warfare Maneuver warfare Military communications Military engineering Military logistics Mountain warfare Raiding Reconnaissance Screening Urban warfare
Size	Corps
Part of	Northern Command
Garrison/HQ	Nagrota
Nickname	White Knight Corps
Commanders
Current commander	Lt Gen Prasanna Kishore Mishra AVSM, YSM, SM

The XVI Corps, or the White Knight Corps, is an army corps of the Indian Army raised on 1 June 1972 with Lieutenant General J F R Jacob as its first General Officer Commanding (GOC). It has its headquarters at Nagrota Cantonment, (Jammu district), Jammu and Kashmir. In 2005, IX Corps was raised in southern part of the XVI Corps' area, taking over two of its divisions.

The corps is reported to include

10th Infantry Division (RAPID) (Crossed Swords Division), headquartered at Akhnoor
25 Infantry Division (Ace of Spades Division), headquartered at Rajouri
39 Infantry Division (Dah Division), headquartered at Palampur, Himachal Pradesh
One Bhairav Battalion^[1]^[2]
Delta Force and Romeo Force of the Rashtriya Rifles come under the operational control of the corps.^[3]

Its current General Officer Commanding is Lieutenant General PK Mishra.

List of commanders

Rank	Name	Appointment date	Left office	Unit of commission	References
Lieutenant General	J F R Jacob	17 June 1972	23 July 1974	Regiment of Artillery	^[4]
	K V Krishna Rao	24 July 1974	15 March 1978	Mahar Regiment	^[5]
	D K Chandorkar	20 March 1978	30 June 1979	Rajputana Rifles
	K Chiman Singh	01 July 1979	29 July 1981	Rajputana Rifles
	A K Handoo	30 July 1981	09 March 1983	Brigade of Guards
	K K Hazari	10 May 1983	25 September 1985	Regiment of Artillery
	M Mayadas	26 September 1985	27 October 1986	5th Armoured Regiment
	Sunith Francis Rodrigues	28 October 1986	31 October 1987	Regiment of Artillery
	Vijay Singh	01 November 1987	14 October 1989
	Harwant Singh	15 October 1989	25 September 1991	62 Cavalry
	Shankar Roychowdhury	26 September 1991	15 August 1992	20 Lancers	^[6]
	H S Bedi	31 August 1992	08 May 1994	Dogra Regiment
	Manjit Singh Bhullar	09 May 1994	23 January 1997	Sikh Regiment
	D S Chauhan	24 January 1997	30 January 1999	Madras Regiment	^[7]
	Arjun Singh Khanna	31 January 1999	31 March 2001	Regiment of Artillery	^[8]
	J.B.S. Yadava	01 April 2001	19 August 2002	11th Gorkha Rifles	^[9]^[10]
	T P S Brar	20 August 2002	17 November 2003	Maratha Light Infantry	^[11]
	Ashok Kapur	18 November 2003	04 December 2004	Sikh Light Infantry	^[11]
	Sudhir Sharma	05 December 2004	20 April 2006	Brigade of Guards
	T K Sapru	02 May 2006	31 October 2007	4th Gorkha Rifles	^[12]
	R K Karwal	01 November 2007	17 October 2008	Rajput Regiment	^[13]
	R K Swamy	18 October 2008	16 October 2009	Mahar Regiment	^[14]
	Romeshwar Roy	17 October 2009	04 December 2010	Jammu and Kashmir Rifles	^[15]
	Jai Prakash Nehra	10 December 2010	01 November 2011	Madras Regiment	^[16]
	A S Nandal	02 November 2011	04 October 2012	5th Gorkha Rifles	^[17]^[18]
	Deependra Singh Hooda	05 October 2012	16 April 2014	4th Gorkha Rifles	^[19]
	Konsam Himalay Singh	17 April 2014	23 July 2015	Rajput Regiment	^[20]
	Rajendra Ramrao Nimbhorkar	24 July 2015	08 October 2016	Punjab Regiment	^[21]^[22]
	Ajae Kumar Sharma	09 October 2016	10 October 2017	Sikh Regiment	^[22]
	Saranjeet Singh	11 October 2017	11 October 2018	Sikh Light Infantry	^[23]^[24]
	Paramjit Singh Sangha	12 October 2018	12 October 2019	Parachute Regiment	^[25]
	Harsha Gupta	13 October 2019	13 October 2020	Sikh Light Infantry	^[26]
	M. V. Suchindra Kumar	14 October 2020	28 October 2021	Assam Regiment	^[27]
	Manjinder Singh	29 October 2021	23 December 2022	Madras Regiment	^[28]
	Sandeep Jain	24 December 2022	31 December 2023	Mahar Regiment	^[29]
	Navin Sachdeva	01 January 2024	31 March 2025	Garhwal Rifles	^[30]
	Prasanna Kishore Mishra	01 April 2025	Incumbent	Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry	^[31]

XVI Corps (India)

List of commanders

References

Further reading

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