Lieutenant General Manoj Pande has been appointed as the subsequent chief of the Indian Army. The 29th Army chief will be the first officer from the Corps of Engineers to turn out to be the Chief of Army Staff succeeding General Manoj Mukund Naravane who is scheduled to whole his 28-month tenure on April 30.
“Government has decided to appoint Lt Gen Manoj Pande as the subsequent chief of navy staff,” the defence ministry announced on Monday. An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Pande used to be commissioned into the Corps of Engineers in December 1982. Lt General Manoj Pande commanded an engineer regiment for the duration of Operation Parakram in the Pallanwala quarter along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Operation Parakram, the large-scale mobilisation of troops and weapons to the western border, accompanied the December 2001 terror assault on Parliament that delivered India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
In his 39-year military career, Lt General Pande has commanded an engineer brigade in the western theatre, an infantry brigade alongside LoC, a mountain division in the Ladakh zone and a corps in the northeast. He was the commander-in-chief of the Andaman and Nicobar Command earlier than he took cost of the Eastern Command.
