Lt Gen Ajai Kumar Singh takes over as Army's new Southern Command chief

MUMBAI: Lt Gen Ajai Kumar Singh has taken over as the new chief of the Indian Army's Southern Command, headquartered in Pune, officials said on Tuesday.

An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Pune and the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, he took over from the outgoing Commander J. S. Nain, who relinquished charge on Monday. Commissioned into the army's 7/11 Gorkha Rifles in Dec. 1984, Lt Gen Singh has vast operational experience of all types of terrain, whether counter-insurgency areas, high altitude and icy glaciated regions like Siachen or the hot deserts. (IANS)

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