Lieutenant General Dalbir Singh Suhag will take over from General Bikram Singh who retires on July 31.
The 59-year-old Lt Gen Suhag, a Gurkha officer, is currently the Vice Chief of Army Staff and the senior-most among the Lieutenant Generals. He will have a tenure of 30 months as the Chief of the force when he takes over from Gen Singh who retires on July 31.
An alumnus of Sainik School, Chittorgarh, Suhag joined National Defence Academy (NDA) in 1970 and was commissioned into 4/5 GR (FF) in June 1974.
The General Officer has attended various career courses in India and abroad which include LDMC at CDM, Secunderabad in 1997-98, NDC Course at New Delhi in 2006, Executive Course in USA in 2005 and Senior Mission Leaders Course (UN) in Kenya in 2007.
He was a Company Commander in 'Op Pawan' in Sri Lanka and commanded 53 Infantry Brigade which was committed in counter insurgency operations in the Kashmir Valley from July 2003 to March 2005.He holds the distinction of commanding 8 Mountain Division in Kargil from October 2007 to December 2008. Suhag took over as the Eastern Army Commander on June 16, 2012.
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His appointment might assuage apprehensions of people in a neighboring country where coups and military intervention in politics of the country are frequent and who are exasperating at the election of a nationalist government.
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