Mhow houses three premier training institutions of the Indian Army -The Infantry School,The M ilitary College of Telecommunication Engineering and The Army War College. In addition to these institutes, MHOW is where Army Training Command or ARTRAC was born. ARTRAC was based in Mhow from 1991 to 1994, before it shifted to Shimla (Himachal Pradesh). At that time its General Officer Commanding in Chief (GOC-in-C) was Lt. General Shankar Roy Chowdhary who went on to become the Chief of Army Staff (COAS). Its first GOC-in-C was Lt. General A.S. Kalkat who had earlier commanded the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka. ARTRAC was housed in the campus of the present Army School Mhow. This was used as All Arms Wing of MCTE for many decades. It was originally built and used as the BMH (British Military Hospital).
THE INFANTRY SCHOOL The Infantry School is the alma mater of the Indian Infantry which is the spearhead of the I ndian Army. It conducts courses related to the infantry for men and officers of the various regiments of the Indian Army. The Commando Wing of this school is in B elgaum, Karnataka. The Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) which has produced many medal winning shooters for the Army and for India is a part of The Infantry School Mhow. Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw was the first Indian Commandant of this school in the 1950s when he was a Brigadier. Present Commandant: Lt Gen AS Nandal,UYSM,AVSM, SM
MILITARY COLLEGE OF TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING (MCTE)
