Madras Engineer Group

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Madras Engineer Group
Active	1780–present
Country	British India  India
Branch	British Indian Army  Indian Army
Type	Combat Engineers
Role	Combat support
Garrison/HQ	Bangalore, Karnataka
Motto(s)	Sarvatra! (Everywhere)
Engagements	Second Anglo-Afghan War First World War Second World War Burma Campaign Sino-Indian War Indo-Pak War-1947 Indo-Pak War-1965 Indo-Pak War-1971 Kargil War
Battle honours	See Battle honours list
Commanders
Colonel Comdt of Madras Sappers	Lt Gen KC Panchanathan, AVSM

Madras Engineer Group (MEG), informally known as the Madras Sappers, is an engineer group of the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army. The Madras Sappers draw their origin from the erstwhile Madras Presidency army of the British Raj. This regiment has its HQ in Bengaluru. The Madras Sappers are the oldest of the three groups of the Corps of Engineers.

The Madras Sappers were the only regiment of the Madras Presidency Army to survive unscathed the extensive reorganisations that took place between 1862 and 1928.^[1] The thambis, as the troops of the Madras Sappers are popularly known, with their hallmark Shakos have distinguished themselves in many battlefields around the world for more than 200 years.

The Bangalore torpedo, a mine clearing explosive device, was invented in the Centre at Bengaluru in the early years of the Twentieth Century.^[2]