V K Singh Takes Charge as Army Chief


New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) Gen V.K. Singh Wednesday took charge as the 26th chief of the 1.13 million-strong Indian Army from Gen Deepak Kapoor.

Singh, 59, will hold the post for the next two years.

Singh, who was GOC-in-C of Eastern Command, has vast experience in counter-insurgency operations.

He was commissioned into the Rajput Regiment and is a graduate of the Wellington-based Defence Services Staff College as well as the US Army War College at Carlisle. He did a Rangers Course at Fort Benning in the US.

He was commissioned in June 1970.

  

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