29 districts comprising over 2,400 divisions and corps where St John volunteers are trained to deliver First Aid.
Primarily, St John Ambulance India delivers First Aid training and in 2010, St John India trained a total of 229,372 adults in First Aid as well as 2,593 children and young people and treated a total of 216,697 patients throughout the year.
Surgeon-Major William George Nicholas Manley of the Royal Regiment of Artillery established St John Ambulance in 1873.
Prior to 1934, St John Ambulance and the Indian Red Cross maintained separate identities although they undertook joint relief work.
At independence, the Indian St John Council was granted entire control over the work that was being carried out in 526 divisions.