Vice Chief of Army Staff Lt Gen Manoj Pande has been appointed as the 29th Chief of Army Staff, becoming the first officer from Corps of Engineers to head the 1.3 million Army.
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He will take over on April 30 when the incumbent Gen Manoj Naravane is set to retire.
“Government has decided to appoint Lt Gen Manoj Pande as the next chief of army staff,” the Defence Ministry announced on Monday.
Lt General Manoj Pande is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy. He was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers in December of 1982.
He commanded an engineer regiment during Operation Parakram in the Pallanwala Sector along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
