Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(Indian Army Corps: Headquarters)
Answer & explanation
Answer: (d) 33 Corps: Srinagar
Srinagar is the seat of 15 Corps, the Chinar Corps, not 33 Corps. 33 Corps is located at Siliguri in North Bengal. The other three pairs are correct.
- ✓ (d) This is the mismatched pair: 33 Corps is at Siliguri in North Bengal, while Srinagar is the station of 15 Corps (Chinar Corps).
- ✗ (a) 3 Corps is at Dimapur, so this pair is correctly matched.
- ✗ (b) 4 Corps is at Tezpur, so this pair is correctly matched.
- ✗ (c) 14 Corps is at Leh, so this pair is correctly matched.
Remember · Corps stations: 3 Dimapur, 4 Tezpur, 14 Leh, 15 Srinagar (Chinar Corps), 33 Siliguri, 16 Nagrota, 9 Yol, 21 Bhopal.
Sources
- Controller General of Defence Accounts (Ministry of Defence), organisation chart of Internal Financial Advisers, Corps HQrs ↗ “3 Corps, Dimapur IFA, 4 Corps, Tezpur IFA,9 Corps, Yol IFA, 10 Corps, Bhatinda IFA, 11 Corps, Jalandhar Cantt IFA, 12 Corps , Jodhpur IFA, 14 Corps, Leh IFA, 15 Corps, Srinagar IFA, 16 Corps, Nagrota IFA, 21 Corps, Bhopal IFA, 33 Corps, Siliguri”
- PIB (President's Secretariat), President of India in Srinagar, 26 July 2019 ↗ “at the Chinar Corps (15 Corps) War Memorial in Srinagar”
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