Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Indian Stamp On 100yrs Of Corps of Signals


India post has released a stamp on Corps Of Signals.The Corps of Signals are more popularly known as the Information Warriors of the Indian Army
Corps Of Signals (depicted on the stamp) have played an important role played by all ranks in enabling net centric warfare in the present information age.
Raised on the 15 February 1911 as a separate entity under Lt Col S H Powell, the Indian Army Signal Corps contributed immensely during World War I and II.  After Independence, Brig CHI Acehurst was the first head of the Corps of Signals. Major expansion of the corps took place after the 1965 and 1971 wars.  The regimental colors were formally presented to the corps on 20 February 1965 and on 15 February 1981.  The corps has a college of telecommunication and engineering at Mhow.
The Corps of Signals has made rapid progress in establishing a world-class Information Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure and has also acquired capabilities to negate the same of our adversaries through effective use of electronic warfare and signal intelligence.
The Corps of Signals has achieved a milestone by launching strategic broadband satellite network, ASCON and AWAN.  It has graduated from pigeons to latest technologies like micro cellular, Wimax, software defined radios and has been successful in integrating these networks and systems to deliver the army the ‘Network of Networks’.
Stamp Depicting The Traffic Lights
First Day Cover Of The Stamp Released

Mhow,Where The corps has a college of telecommunication and engineering
[Geo Tag Related To The Stamp]
A Blog About Mhow : Click Here
Corps Of Signal Official Site : Click Here

4 comments:

Dev said...

As someone who belongs to the Signals family I feel great seeing this entry. Let me see if I can get a first day cover. Incidentally I have a blog dedicated to the small town of Mhow.

Anonymous said...

it would interest me, what mountain peak is shown on postage stamp? please let me know. Thank a lot!

kathmandu@gmx.ch

jenu said...

is there a way to get hold of that first day cover? i wanted to gift it to my dad.

Kumar Nair said...

Hi Jenu,

I can check it out for you.I have got stamps

Where do you stay can you mail me on kumar dot nair at gmail.com

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