New Army Chief Of India

General Manoj Chandrashekhar Pande 

 Lieutenant General Manoj Chandrashekhar Pande, Param Vishist Seva Medal (PVSM), Ati Vishist Seva Medal (AVSM), Vayu Sena Medal (VSM) will now be serving as the Army Chief from 30th April 2022. After the sad demise of our late Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat on 8 December 2021, Manoj Mukund Naravane was appointed as the new Chief of Defence Staff then after three and half months, the post of Army Chief has been heading by Lieutenant General Manoj Chandrashekhar Pande. At present, he is the Vice-Chief of the Army Staff. Earlier, he had served as the General Officer-Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, having taken over on 1 June 2021. He also commanded as the Commander-in-Chief in Andaman and Nicobar. On 18th April 2022, the Government announced that he will be serving as the next Army Chief of India from 30th April 2022 onwards. Besides it, he has also become the first officer from the Corps of Engineers to become the Army Chief of India. He will be the 29th Chief of the Indian Army. 

 Life and Education 

 Lieutenant General Manoj Pande was born on 6th May 1962 in Nagpur in Maharashtra. His father, Dr C G Pande, was the former Head of the Department of Psychology at Nagpur University. His mother, Prema was an announcer and host with the All India Radio. His ancestors hail from the city of Nagpur. After his schooling, he joined the National Defence Academy (NDA), where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. After NDA, he joined the Indian Military Academy. He finished his studies at Staff College, Camberley (United Kingdom). Apart from it, he took courses at the Higher Command (HC) and the National Defence College (NDC). He married Archana Salpekar.



 He was a major commanding officer during Operation Parakram. He is credited with overseeing an Engineer Regiment in the sensitive Pallianwala. Sector, which included the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. He received his bachelor’s degree from Staff College, Camberley, United Kingdom, and he also attended the Higher Command and National Defence College (NDC) Courses in the United States. Lt General Pande has commanded an engineer brigade in the western theatre, an infantry brigade along LoC. He had also led a mountain division in the Ladakh sector and a corps in the northeast. He was the commander-in-chief of the Andaman and Nicobar Command before he took charge of the Eastern Command.

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  1. Shubham April 22, 2022 at 1:23 AM

    Thanks for giving advanced information about our new army chief

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