Lt Gen Hira appointed Deputy Chief of Army Staff

March 12, 2016 19:11

Chief of Staff of Northern Command at Udhampur, Lt Gen N P S Hira, has been appointed as Deputy Chief of Army Staff and would assume office on March 14.

"Lt Gen N P S Hira, who is presently posted as Chief of Staff of Northern command at Udhampur, has been posted to Army Headquarters at Delhi to take over as Deputy Chief of Army Staff with effect from March 14," Defence spokesman, Col S D Goswami said.

He said the General was commissioned in the Sikh Light Infantry and has a rich experience of counter insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and in the northeast region, as well as conventional operations in Western command.

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