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NEW DELHI: The Indian Army volition witnesser a reshuffle astatine the apical level connected Wednesday arsenic heads of 2 cardinal commands — Western and Eastern — retired connected Tuesday.Lt Gen Manoj Kumar Katiyar, the wide serviceman commanding-in-chief (GoC-in-C) of the Army’s Western Command, retired aft a distinguished 40-year career.
He earlier served arsenic Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) astatine IHQ of the defence ministry (Army).
Prior to that, helium was General Officer Commanding of the Army’s I Corps, a premier onslaught formation.On Wednesday, the existent vice-chief, Lt Gen Pushpendra Pal Singh, is scheduled to instrumentality implicit arsenic the caput of Western Command, which is 1 of the Army’s astir captious operational formations liable for guarding the Pakistan borderline crossed Jammu, Samba, Kathua and Punjab.Lt Gen RC Tiwari, the Eastern Army Commander, besides superannuated connected Tuesday. He volition beryllium succeeded by Lt Gen VMB Krishnan, who has been promoted.Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth, the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Pune-based Southern Command, volition determination to the Army HQ arsenic vice-chief from April 1. Lt Gen Seth is an Armoured Corps serviceman commissioned successful Dec 1986. He has held respective bid and unit appointments during his career.
Prior to taking complaint of Southern Command successful July 2024, helium commanded the Mathura-based XXI Strike Corps, 1 of the Army’s cardinal onslaught formations.Lt Gen Sandeep Jain, presently Chief Of Staff, Southern Command, volition get elevated arsenic Southern Army Commander successful his place.Lt Gen Katiyar, who led the Western Command during the struggle with Pakistan past May, precocious said, “During Operation Sindoor, we successfully thwarted Pakistan's nefarious objectives and achieved success...
Beyond regular training, we are undertaking large-scale procurement of caller equipment, including drones and counter-drone systems. Wherever necessary, we are manufacturing these items in-house wrong our ain workshops.
”During his tenure arsenic Eastern Army Commander, Lt Gen Tiwari played a cardinal relation successful strengthening operational preparedness successful the eastbound theatre, enhancing grooming and capableness development. Through his subject vocation spanning implicit 3 decades, Tiwari held important bid roles successful some accepted warfare and counter-insurgency environments, including commanding an infantry battalion for counter-insurgency operations, a upland brigade successful high-altitude areas, the elite Black Cat Division arsenic General Officer Commanding (GOC) and 3 Corps (Spear Corps) successful Nagaland.
