Indian Army- Lieutenant General Manoj Pandey will be the next Chief of Staff of the Indian Army. Take it for now, General Manoj Pandey is the Vice Chief of Army. General MM Naravane is retiring at the end of this month. To take. General Manoj Pandey will be the first engineer to command the Indian army.
General Manoj Pandey was previously the Commander of the Eastern Command and also held the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Andaman and Nicobar Command. General Manoj Pandey was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and Vishisht Seva Medal.
General Manoj Pandey was born to Dr. CG Pandey and Prema who was an announcer and host for All India Radio. His family is from Nagpur. Take it after school. General Manoj Pandey joined the National Defense Academy. After NDA, he joined the Indian Military Academy and took his commission as an officer. He married Government Dental College Gold Medalist Archana Salpekar on May 3, 1987.
General Manoj Pandey was appointed in December 1982 to the Bombay Sappers, a regiment of the Corps of Engineers. He was also a member of the Staff College in Camberley, UK.
After completing the course, he returned to India and was appointed Major of the North East Indian Mountain Brigade. After attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he served as Chief Engineer with the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
General Manoj Pandey also led the 117th Engineer Regiment on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Par was the regimental commander during Operation Parakram. After that he joined the Army War College, and completed the Higher Command Course. Subsequently, he was appointed Colonel Q at the headquarters of the 8th Mountain Division.
After being promoted to major general, Pandey commanded the 8th Mountain Division, which was involved in high altitude operations in western Ladakh. He then worked as an Additional Director General (ADG) in the Military Operations Directorate at Army Headquarters. Promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, he assumed responsibility for the chief of staff of Southern Command.
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