Lieutenant General MV Suchindra Kumar appointed new Army Vice Chief

The Indian Army has appointed Lt General MV Suchindra Kumar as the new Army Vice Chief as the present officer holding the charge has been shifted to South Western Army Command as Army Commander.

Lt Gen MV Suchendra Kumar was the deputy chief of Army Staff before being appointed as the Army Vice Chief (strategy). He has participated in a number of significant assignments, including the White Knight Corps in Jammu and Kashmir.

Lt Gen BS Raju, who had previously served as Army Vice Chief, has been assigned to South Western Army Command, where he will succeed Lt Gen AS Bhinder, who will retire on February 28.

Lt Gen BS Raju had only a 10 month stint as Army Vice Chief and will have another eight months in the new office. He took over as the Vice Chief on May 1 after present Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande moved to his new office on promotion.

Lt Gen NSR Subramani has been promoted to the rank of Army Commander and appointed as the next Central Army Commander in Lucknow. He is presently the Chief of Staff in the Northern Command.

Subramani is an infantry officer and known to be a tough task master. The Central Command looks after the Line of Actual Control with China in the central sector in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.