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ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC)  is a premier medical institute of India acknowledged as a centre of excellence for education and research. The college provides training to under-graduate and post-graduate medical and nursing students with assured career prospects in the defence services. The institute was set up on 01 May 1948 by an act of parliament of India on the recommendations of the BC Roy Committee by the amalgamation of various defence medical organizations. The ‘Graduate Wing’ of AFMC was established on  August 04, 1962 to provide a sustainable and steady intake of medical officers for the Indian Armed Forces. The institute is presently affiliated to the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences and is recognized by the Medical Council of India for conducting undergraduate and various post graduate medical courses.  Its symbol has ‘within a lotus wreath, surmounted by the Ashokan lions, the rod of Aesculapaeus the serpent

INDIAN ARMED FORCES The Indian Armed Forces  are the military forces of the Republic of India. They consist of the Army , Navy , Air Force  and Indian Coast Guard, supported by paramilitary forces and various inter-service institutions such as the Strategic Forces Command . The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. The Indian Armed Forces are under the management of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), which is led by the Union Cabinet Minister of Defence. The Indian armed forces have been engaged in a number of major military operations, including the Indo-Pakistan wars of 1947, 1965 and 1971, the Sino-Indian War, the 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish, the Kargil War and the Siachen conflict among others. India honours its armed forces and military personnel annually on Armed Forces Flag Day on December 7. The crest of the Indian Armed forces consists of the symbols of the Army, Navy and Air Force placed one above the other  in the middle of