Garrison engineer


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A Garrison Engineer is a Central Government Officer and is responsible for the whole infrastructure of the Indian Armed Forces and has the rank of Executive Engineer or Executive Engineer in the prestigiousIndian Defence Service of Engineers. Garrison Engineer is a designation which is held either by a defence civilian officer of M.E.S. or by a Military officer of the rank of Lt Col. The Garrison engineer's staff at least three Assistant Garrison Engineers, a Barrack Stores officer, an accounts officer, and junior engineers. Responsibility of the position is to maintain the infrastructure of the Indian Armed Forces and make them more better. One of the elected members of the cantonment board has to be a former Garrison Engineer.
The first Indian to become an officiating garrison engineer was Rai Bahadur Pandit Ram Prasad Tewari, who served in the Military Engineer Services from 1880 to 1920.