Lt General Ajai Kumar Singh Assumes Charge As Army's Southern Command Chief
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An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Pune and Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, Lt General Singh was commissioned into 7/11 Gorkha Rifles in December 1984.
Lieutenant General Ajai Kumar Singh took over as General Office Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Command of the Indian Army on Tuesday, a defence release said.
An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Pune and Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, Lt General Singh was commissioned into 7/11 Gorkha Rifles in December 1984.
He has vast operational experience in all types of terrain be it counter-insurgency areas, high altitudes & icy glaciated regions of Siachen or the desert sector, the release said.
He commanded 1/11 Gorkha Rifles on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, an elite brigade in the Western Theatre, a frontline Counter Insurgency Force in the Kashmir Valley and Trishakti Corps in North East.
