Indian Military Training Team

It is the oldest training team sent outside India to a friendly foreign nation.

In May 1961, Government of India sent a team of military officers and men on a reconnaissance mission to Bhutan.

The team was led by BGS XXXIII Corps Brigadier J. S. Aurora (who later became Lieutenant General and Eastern Army Commander during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971).

On 20 July 1962, Colonel B. N. Upadhyay of the 9th Gorkha Rifles took over as First Commandant of IMTRAT.

It was established in 1970 and was inaugurated by the then-Commandant Major General T. V. Jeganathan, PVSM, AVSM.