New Indian Integrated Battle Group on Indo-Tibet Border

Indian army is on its way to match or perhaps exceed Chinese unit deployment structure on Indo-Tibet border.

Chinese PLA Army uses a Combined Arms Brigade (CABs) structure which has 5000-6000 soldiers in 4 Infantry battalions plus one battalion each for artillery, air defence, engineering, support, recon and logistics. These can be Light, Medium, Amphibious or Mountains (in Tibet) type depending upon role and equipment profile.

These CABs serve under a Group Army (GA) which has 5-6 CABs of different types as explained above and one specialised brigade each for artillery, air defence, engineering, service support, aviation and logistics.

Indian Army is now fielding an equivalent Integrated Battle Group (IBG) under XVII Corps. It is only my guess as data is scarce and mostly speculative, but this IBG should have similar manpower, but with less artillery and mechanisation mostly due to terrain and less available equipment. Western sector with flat terrain may have more. They have RAPIDS too, which are meant for quick shallow strikes and holding enemy territory.

Next step is creation of Theatre Commands, but it has been a work in progress for a very long time already.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/army-set-to-establish-operationalise-first-integrated-battle-groups-next-month-10761985