Lt General Chandi Prasad Mohanty subsequent Vice Chief of Army Staff

By Express News Service
JAGATSINGHPUR/BHUBANESWAR: Lt General Chandi Prasad Mohanty, presently serving as General Officer Commanding in chief of Southern Command, has been appointed as forty second Vice Chief of Army Staff.

Lt Gen Mohanty is the primary Odia officer to be appointed the Vice Chief of Army, second solely to the Chief of Army Staff.

Born to Jitendra Kishore Mohanty, a retired authorities worker and Sarada Kumari Mohanty, a former professor in Odia at SVM College, Lt Gen Mohanty studied until Class VI at Bagashai UP School in Jagatsinghpur.

He then enrolled in Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), Dehradun and joined the National Defence Academy. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in Rajput Regiment in June 1982. 

Having served alongside the borders of Pakistan and China, the illustrious infantry officer was energetic in counter insurgency operations in Assam and had led a multi-national UN brigade in Congo. 

After the Doklam incident, he commanded the XXXIII Corps within the Eastern Command and was then appointed General Officer Commanding, Uttar Bharat Area at Bareilly.  

The information additionally introduced cheers to residents of Jayabada village below Jagatsinghpur municipality, his native place.