General Manoj Pande Takes Over As 29th Chief of Army Staff

New Delhi: General Manoj Pande on Saturday took over as India’s 29th chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army.

General Pande took over the reins from General MM Naravane who will retire on May 1.

Here’s all you need to know about the 29th Chief of Army Staff

The 29th Army chief will be the first officer from the Corps of Engineers to become the Chief of Army Staff succeeding General Manoj Mukund Naravane who is scheduled to complete his 28 month-tenure on April 30.
An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Pande was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers in December 1982.
Lieutenant General Pande commanded an engineer regiment during Operation Parakram in the Pallanwala sector along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Operation Parakram, the large-scale mobilisation of troops and weapons to the western border, followed the December 2001 terror attack on Parliament that brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
In his 39-year military career, Lt General Pande has commanded an engineer brigade in the western theatre, an infantry brigade along LoC, 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.