PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU (DEFENCE WING) GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
(NOT TOBE PUBLISHED BEFORE SATURDAY, APRIL 11 1950) I TRAINING COi'IhAND OF THE IAF
BY
S/Ldr L.K. CHOPRA
The seventeenth, birth anniversary of the Indian Air Force
strikes a peculiarly fresh and happy note for its Training Command
under Air Commodore RH.D Singh.
It is India: s Air Arm1 s first anniversary after the intro.du
tion of the :n.e "al1—tbrough scheme of training launched in the Air Forca during the year that has just closed, the first after the
reorganasation of the training institutions in the Command on the
new system, and the first after the acquirement of a new status
by the two premier IAF formations Therefore, April 1 of this year is truly a landmark, a pointer to one chapter, which has just finished and to another which now unfolds.
A 1aarack will reveal that the Training Command and its
functions have undergone a steady, unbroken and progressive evolution
sce ia.ependonc'c D:.,y. Thring these last two years and a half the training in the IAF has proceeded with unhampered continuity; 'it has been precisely during this period that some of the most vital decisions on IAF training on modern lines have been taken and implemented.
One of these important decisions has been the formation of the
Training Command itself. It.s progenitor was No.2 Indian Group,
which bore a geographical complexion and gave way to NO2 Training