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 the disputed Kashmir region. In 2005, IX Corps was raised in southern part of the XVI Corps' area, taking over two of its divisions.
Order of battle 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 Delta Force and Romeo Force of the Rashtriya Rifles come under the operational control of the corps.
List of commanders RankNameAppointment dateLeft officeUnit of commissionReferencesLieutenant GeneralJ F R Jacob17 June 197223 July 1974Regiment of Artillery K V Krishna Rao24 July 197415 March 1978Mahar Regiment D K Chandorkar20 March 197830 June 1979Rajputana RiflesK Chiman Singh01 July 197929 July 1981Rajputana RiflesA K Handoo30 July 198109 March 1983Brigade of GuardsK K Hazari10 May 198325 September 1985Regiment of ArtilleryM Mayadas26 September 198527 October 19865th Armoured RegimentSunith Francis Rodrigues28 October 198631 October 1987Regiment of ArtilleryVijay Singh01 November 198714 October 1989Harwant Singh15 October 198925 September 199162 CavalryShankar Roychowdhury26 September 199115 August 199220 LancersH S Bedi31 August 199208 May 1994Dogra RegimentManjit Singh Bhullar09 May 199423 January 1997Sikh RegimentD S Chauhan24 January 199730 January 1999Madras RegimentArjun Singh Khanna 31 January 199931 March 2001Regiment of ArtilleryJ.B.S. Yadava01 April 200119 August 200211th Gorkha RiflesT P S Brar20 August 200217 November 2003Maratha Light InfantryAshok Kapur18 November 200304 December 2004Sikh Light InfantrySudhir Sharma05 December 200420 April 2006Brigade of GuardsT K Sapru02 May 200631 October 20074th Gorkha RiflesR K Karwal01 November 200717 October 2008Rajput RegimentR K Swamy18 October 200816 October 2009Mahar RegimentRomeshwar Roy17 October 200904 December 2010Jammu and Kashmir RiflesJai Prakash Nehra10 December 201001 November 2011Madras RegimentA S Nandal02 November 201104 October 20125th Gorkha RiflesDeependra Singh Hooda05 October 201216 April 20144th Gorkha RiflesKonsam Himalay Singh17 April 201423 July 2015Rajput RegimentRajendra Ramrao Nimbhorkar24 July 201508 October 2016Punjab RegimentAjae Kumar Sharma09 October 201610 October 2017Sikh RegimentSaranjeet Singh11 October 201711 October 2018Sikh Light InfantryParamjit Singh Sangha12 October 201812 October 2019Parachute RegimentHarsha Gupta13 October 201913 October 2020Sikh Light InfantryM. V. Suchindra Kumar14 October 202028 October 2021Assam RegimentManjinder Singh29 October 202123 December 2022Madras RegimentSandeep Jain24 December 202231 December 2023Mahar RegimentNavin Sachdeva 01 January 202431 March 2025Garhwal RiflesPrasanna Kishore Mishra01 April 202530 September 2026Jammu and Kashmir Light InfantryMohit Seth01 October 2026IncumbentMadras Regiment
References
Further reading Richard A. Renaldi and Ravi Rikhe, Indian Army Order of Battle, Orbat.com for Tiger Lily Books: A division of General Data LLC, , 2011.
External links Globalsecurity.org, Nagrota Corps / XVI Corps / White Knight Corps, accessed July 2010 Official twitter handle