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Lieutenant General N C Vij


Lieutenant General N C Vij is the new Southern Army Commander. He took charge on
October 1 from Lieutenant General S Padmanabhan, who Lieutenant General N C Vij became the new Army Chief.

The General Officer was commissioned into the Dogra Regiment in December 1962. An Alumnus of the National Defence Academy, the General has graduated from the Defense Services Staff College Wellington and has also attended the prestigious National Defense College Course.

He has the distinction of having held several commands during his army career, which include the 4 Dogras, a Brigade in the East in Counter Insurgency and in High Altitude areas. He has commanded a RAPID division in the desert and has the unique distinction of having commanded two Corps, one of them a strike and one involved in counter Insurgency operations in the North Eastern Sector.The General Officer was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal by the President of India for his exceptional services rendered during the command of the corps in the counter Insurgency operations in the North Eastern Sector.

A specialist in Military operations, he has been General Staff Officer 1 in a Mountain Division, a Director in the Military Operations Directorate and Deputy Director General of Perspective Planning at the Rank of Brigadier in Army Headquarters. As a Major General he was Major General General Staff Western Command.

Before assuming his present appointment, he was Director General Military Operations at Army Headquarters. He oversaw the country's historic victory over Pakistan in the Kargil Operations. For his role in the operations, he was awarded the Uttam Yudh Seva Medal. He was also responsible for conceiving and finalizing the ground Plans of Operation Khukri, the plan to rescue the trapped Indian Troops in Sierra Leone.

- Rahul Surkund

 
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