58 Armoured Regiment is a regiment in the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army. It was raised in Patiala on 1 October 2014 as an all-India all-caste regiment, i.e. its soldiers are recruited from all over India without any distinctions based on ethnicity, caste, region, etc.
Lieutenant General Kamal Jit Singh, PVSM, AVSM* was appointed as the first Colonel of the regiment on 20 January 2015.[2]
The regiment participated in the Republic Day parade in 2017 with its T-90 tanks.[3]
References
- ^ "Gazette of India No 44" (PDF). 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ "Gazette of India, No 31" (PDF). 2015-08-01. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ "'Do Not Rain on My Parade': India's 68th Republic Day Round-up". 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2021-01-07.