LUCKNOW, 08 AUG 2025
As part of celebrations of the 56th Raising Day of Officer’s Training College (OTC) of AMC Centre & College Lucknow, an unusual Blood Donation Drive was carried out by OTC at the Command Hospital, Central Command in Lucknow Cantonment on 07 August 2025.
On this occasion 56 Doctors, Dentists and Allied Healthcare staff of all three services came together to commemorate the 56th Raising Day of OTC by donating 56 units of blood in an act of selfless service to patients, beyond just being the care givers.
The donors were felicitated by Maj Gen KJ Singh, VSM, the officiating Commandant of AMC Centre and College and Maj Gen VK Patra, the Commandant & Chief Instructor of OTC. Certificates of Appreciation were given away by Maj Gen Jyotindu Debnath, Commandant of Command Hospital, Central Command Lucknow.
Officer’s Training College (OTC) is a training establishment located at AMC Centre and College, Lucknow for training of Medical, Dental and Nursing officers of all three services- Army, Navy and Air Force in military medicine, administration and military leadership. The young doctors, dentists and nurses joining the Armed Forces are trained to become officers and leaders of men; the ‘shoulders behind the soldiers’.
The present Officers Training College (OTC) took its origin from the Officers Training Wing (OTW) which was raised on 1st November 1957 as part of the AMC Centre Lucknow. After the Chinese aggression, during 1962, another OTW was raised at AMC Centre (South), Secunderabad.
Subsequently, both these wings were amalgamated into the OTW at AMC Centre Lucknow. The OTW was later upgraded to the Officers Training School (OTS) on 9th August 1969 and assigned the status of Category ‘A’ component of AMC Centre which was re-designated as OTC on 16th November 2009.
SHANTANU/DWARIKA/130/2025
