Odisha-Born Lt Gen Chandi Prasad Mohanty To Be Next Vice Chief Of Army Staff – ODISHA BYTES
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Bhubaneswar: Odia Army officer Chandi Prasad Mohanty is about to turn into India’s Vice Chief Of Army Staff.
Mohanty is the primary Army officer from Odisha who will probably be taking cost of the second highest publish of the Indian Army after Chief of Army Staff. He will probably be changing Lt Gen SK Saini, who’s retiring on 31 January.
The Lieutenant General presently holds the publish of General Officer Commanding in-chief, Southern Command.
A local of Jayabada village of Jagatsinghpur district, Mohanty grew to become the primary Odia to take admission within the Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC) at Dehradun. Later, he joined the National Defence Academy (NDA) and was commissioned as a second lieutenant within the Rajput Regiment.
Mohanty, who was earlier posted because the General Officer Commanding of Uttar Bharat space, has operational expertise alongside the borders with Pakistan and China. Apart from this, he has been lively within the counter-insurgency operations in Assam and had led a multinational UN brigade to diffuse the bloodiest civil warfare in Congo.
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