 An officer of the Indian Defence Estates Service(IDES) is posted as Chief Executive Officer.Principal Director, Defence Estates, of the level of Additional Secretary at the Centre, is posted in each Command, who apart from being advisor to the GOC-in-C, is answerable to the Director General Defence Estates and through him to the Ministry of Defence.The military units at the Cantonment come under the administrative and operational control of the 1st Armoured Division, Patiala.