LIEUTENANT General Chandi Prasad Mohanty will take over as the new vice-chief of Army staff on February 1.

He is presently the Southern Army Commander and will be succeeding Lt General S K Saini on his superannuation.

An alumnus of Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC) Dehradun and National Defence Academy, Lt General Mohanty is a June 1982 batch Infantry Officer from the Rajput Regiment.

 

During his distinguished military career, General Mohanty has had vast operational, logistics and administrative experience in varied command and staff appointments. He commanded his Battalion in Jammu and Kashmir and North-East, a Mountain Brigade along the Indo-China border and a Mountain Division in Counter Insurgency Operations in North East.

 

Later he commanded a strategically important Corps in the Eastern Theatre post-Doklam incident and also Uttar Bharat Area at Bareilly.