Officers Training Academy, Chennai

Fifty years of the Officers Training Academy, Chennai, founded in 1963 to train Short Service Commission officers.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue March 7, 2013

Denomination Rs. 5

Printer India Security Press, Nashik

Perforation 13

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Wet Offset

Catalogue codes Michel IN 2702 Yvert et Tellier IN 2459 Stanley Gibbons IN 2922 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN014.2013

Themes Anniversaries and Jubilees, Army

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About this stamp

Fifty Years of OTA Chennai

India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 7 March 2013 for the golden jubilee of the Officers Training Academy (OTA), Chennai, which trains officers of the Indian Army for the Short Service Commission. During the Second World War seven officers training schools were opened in India, but all were closed after the war; after the war with China in 1962 the need for officers led to the founding of the academy at Alandur in Chennai in 1963.

Its 49-week course prepares graduates for every branch of the Army except the Medical Corps, and its alumni have won a Param Vir Chakra, Ashoka Chakras, Maha Vir Chakras and many other gallantry awards.

India Post has no brochure for this issue online, so this text draws on Wikipedia.