About this stamp
The Remount Veterinary Corps
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 14 December 2019 on “The Force Multiplier”, the Remount Veterinary Corps (RVC) of the Indian Army, which breeds, rears and trains the army’s horses, mules and dogs. The corps was raised in Bengal in 1779 as the Stud Department and took its present name in 1960, when the Military Farms became a separate corps. It is one of the oldest services of the Indian Army. Its motto is Pashu Seva Asmakam Dharma, “service to animals is our duty”.
Silent Warriors
Army dogs trained by the RVC detect mines and explosives, guard, attack, patrol with the infantry and take part in search, rescue and avalanche rescue; its mules and horses carry supplies to remote posts. The corps served in both world wars, in Jammu and Kashmir in 1947–48, in NEFA in 1962, in the wars of 1965 and 1971, with the IPKF in Sri Lanka and in Operation Vijay at Kargil in 1999. Its animals have helped after the Bhuj earthquake of 2001, the 2004 tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Leh cloudburst, and it serves with UN missions in Lebanon and South Sudan. Its Central Military Veterinary Laboratory at Meerut is, according to India Post, the country’s only NABL-accredited veterinary laboratory. The RVC has also trained riders for the Indian Army’s equestrian teams.
On the Stamp
A rider in a helmet jumps a horse in the foreground, beside a soldier with a dog, while mules carry loads behind; the corps’ blue cross is at the top left. It was designed by Nenu Gupta; 600,440 were printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad.
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