Normal Upendra Dwivedi Takes Cost As Indian Military Chief, Normal Manoj Pande Retires
Normal Upendra Dwivedi is the brand new Chief of the Military Workers (COAS) of the Indian Military
New Delhi:
Normal Upendra Dwivedi has taken over because the Chief of the Military Workers (COAS) from Normal Manoj Pande, who took cost in Might 2022.
Previous to this, Normal Dwivedi was the Vice Chief of the Military Workers. He’s the recipient of Param Vishisht Seva Medal, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, and three Normal Officer Commanding-in-Cost (GOC-in-C) commendation playing cards.
A resident of Madhya Pradesh, he studied in Sainik College Rewa, and joined the Nationwide Defence Academy (NDA) in January 1981. He was commissioned into the 18th Battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles in December 1984, which he later commanded in Kashmir valley and the deserts of Rajasthan.
From his faculty days, he grew up as an impressive sportsman and excelled in each the NDA and the Indian Army Academy (IMA), the place he received ‘Blue’ in bodily coaching. He continued to excel submit commissioning and obtained a gold medal within the bodily coaching course.
Normal Dwivedi has a novel distinction of balanced publicity alongside the northern, western and japanese theatres, in diversified terrain and operational surroundings together with deserts, excessive altitude, riverine, built-up space, northeast, and Jammu and Kashmir.
He commanded his battalion in counter-terrorist operations in Kashmir valley and in Rajasthan’s deserts. He has been the Inspector Normal Assam Rifles (IGAR-GOC) and Sector Commander of the Assam Rifles in intense counter-terrorist operations, and held many different employees and command appointments within the northeast the place he pioneered the primary ever compendium on Indo-Myanmar border administration.
Subsequently, Normal Dwivedi commanded the Rising Star Corps alongside the western entrance and the Northern Military from 2022-2024 in a particularly difficult operational surroundings. He offered strategic steerage and operational oversight for planning and executing sustained operations alongside the northern and western borders, moreover orchestrating dynamic counter-terrorism operations in Jammu and Kashmir.
He was concerned in modernising and equipping the biggest command of the Indian Military, the place he steered the induction of indigenous gear as a part of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’. He has diversified employees exposures which incorporates dealing with typical operations of the Armoured Brigade within the plains of Punjab, offering logistical help to a Mountain Division within the northeast alongside the northern borders, and operations of a Strike Corps in deserts.
Normal Dwivedi’s two abroad tenures embody Somalia, as a part of HQ UNOSOM II, and Seychelles as Army Advisor to the federal government there.
He’s married to Sunita Dwivedi, a Science graduate. Sunita Dwivedi has been related to Aarushi, an institute for in another way abled kids in Bhopal. The couple are blessed with two daughters. Normal Dwivedi is a talented yoga practitioner.
The outgoing military chief, Normal Pande, was the primary officer from the Corps of Engineers to turn into the Chief of the Military Workers. An alumnus of the Nationwide Defence Academy, Normal Pande was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers in December 1982. He commanded an engineer regiment throughout Operation Parakram within the Pallanwala sector alongside the Line of Management (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.
