Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane to take over as new Army Chief

Vice Chief of the Army Staff, Lt Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane will take over as new Army Chief today. He will succeed Gen Bipin Rawat, who retires today after a three-year stint as Army chief.  Before taking charge as vice-chief of the Army staff in September, Lt Gen Naravane was heading the Eastern Command of the Army which takes care of India's nearly 4,000-km border with China.

In his 37 years of service, Lt Gen Naravane has served in



numerous command and staff appointments in peace, field and highly active counter-insurgency environments in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast. He has also commanded a Rashtriya Rifles Battalion in Jammu and Kashmir and an infantry brigade on the eastern front. Lt Gen Naravane was also part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka and had served as India's defence attache at the Indian Embassy in Myanmar for three years.