Lt Gen Manoj Pandey : NEW DelHI: Lieutenant General Manoj Pande has been appointed as the next king of the Indian Army.
He will take over from COAS (Army Chief of Staff) General MM Naravane, who is due to retire at the end of this month.
Lt Gen Pande will be the first officer assigned to the Corps of Engineers to be the Chief of Staff.
He is the head of the army after General Naravane and serves as Deputy Chief of Staff.
Lt Gen Pande was offered a job at Bombay Sappers in December 1982.
In his distinguished career, he has held many prestigious jobs and staff assignments in routine and anti-revolutionary activities in all walks of life.
He commanded an army of engineers near the Line of Control during Operation Parakram in Jammu and Kashmir, an army of engineers in the western region, an army on foot near the LoC and the division of mountains in the highlands west of Ladakh and in the west. Northeast.
He has served as chief engineer of UN missions in Ethiopia and Eritrea. He was Commander-in-Chief Andaman and Nicobar Command (CINCAN) from June 2020 to May 2021.
Prior to taking office, he was in charge of the Eastern Army Command, which was tasked with overseeing the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh sectors.
For his outstanding service, Lt Gen Pande was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, Vishisht Seva Medal, Chief of Army Staff Commendation and GOC-in-C Commendation.
Manoj Pande (lieutenant general)
Outgoing army chief Gen MM Naravane is seen as the frontrunner for the Chief of Defense Staff’s (CDS), which has been vacant since the death of India’s first General CDS General Bipin Rawat in a plane crash last December.
The government has decided to appoint Lieutenant General Manoj Pande as its next military commander, “security officials told ANI.
He commanded an army of engineers during Operation Parakram in the Pallanwala field on the Control line in Jammu and Kashmir.
Operation Parakram, a large gathering of troops and weapons on the western border, followed the December 2001 terrorist attacks on Parliament that brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
Pande, who serves as deputy chief executive officer, will be the first Corps of Engineers chief executive to hold a senior position.
The government has gone on to appoint Pande as the next king as he is currently the chief of staff in the army after Naravane. In the past, the government has appointed new superintendents in the senior management team and they have been ignored.
Prior to indicting the deputy chief on February 1, Pande was leading the HQs Eastern Command based in Kolkata.
An alumnus of the National Defense Academy, Pande was offered a job at the Corps of Engineers in December 1982. He commissioned an engineering team during Operation Parakram in the Pallanwala Field near the Control Line in Jammu and Kashmir.
India’s first senior security officer (CDS), General Bipin Rawat, who died in a helicopter crash last December, was leading the show. The government is yet to appoint a successor. The death of the CDS has been seen as a reversal of the ongoing military changes, including theatrical performances.
However, as the government keeps the CDS position vacant, the decks have been cleared so that General Pande can take over as Commander-in-Chief, and all his other top rivals will retire at the moment.
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