Army Service Corps celebrates 258th Foundation Day

LUCKNOW : The Army Service Corps (ASC) celebrated its 258th Foundation Day at Central Command, Lucknow on Saturday to commemorate the gallant soldiers who laid down their lives in the line of duty. Senior ASC officer Major General PP Singh laid wreath and paid floral tribute the martyrs at Smritika War Memorial here.

The Army Service Corps (ASC) is the oldest and largest administrative service in the Indian Army. It is the logistics backbone of the armed forces and is responsible for provisioning of rations and petroleum products apart from air maintenance, provisioning of mechanical transport and animal transport support to formations across the country.

It has consistently evolved and emerged as a modern, information tech savvy and network centric organization catering to the ever-changing strategic and operational environment of the Army.

Corps has participated in large number of campaigns including World War-I & World War-II and fought over in three continents and over all types of terrains, from dry deserts to snowy mountains, jungles and high altitude.

Post independence, the ASC has taken part in operations in Kashmir, Nagaland, against the Chinese in Ladakh, NEFA in 1962 and against Pakistan in 1965 and 1971. It took part in IPKF Operation in Srilanka, Operation VIJAY and Operation PARAKRAM.