During his three-day visit to Ladakh, General Manoj Pande will visit forward areas in Eastern Ladakh and interact with troops deployed along the Line of Actual Control in the most difficult and inhospitable terrain in the world.
New Delhi: General Manoj Pande, Chief of Army Staff, reached Leh on Thursday on his maiden visit to Ladakh region after assuming the reins of the Indian Army.
The Army Chief was briefed on the security situation along the borders with special focus on Eastern Ladakh. The high level of operational readiness being maintained by the forces while maintaining a high tempo of capability development was highlighted.
Later, General Manoj Pande, accompanied by Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command and Lieutenant General A Sengupta, General Officer Commanding, Fire and Fury Corps called on R K Mathur, Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh.
This was followed by a detailed discussion on issues related to Civil-Military cooperation and the role of Indian Army in developmental activities in the Union Territory of Ladakh.
During his three-day visit to Ladakh, General Manoj Pande will visit forward areas in Eastern Ladakh and interact with troops deployed along the Line of Actual Control in the most difficult and inhospitable terrain in the world.
General Manoj Pande, who was serving as the Vice Chief, had taken over the Army on April 30. With his elevation, General Pande has become the first officer from the Corps of Engineers to be appointed as the Army Chief. Officers from the ‘sappers’ have served as commanders and vice chiefs but never as the Army chief.
General Pande, before being appointed as the Vice-Chief, was heading the Eastern Army Command, tasked with guarding the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh sectors. He has also served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Andaman and Nicobar Command (CINCAN), which is India’s only tri-services command. He has also held many prestigious commands and staff assignments in conventional as well as counter-insurgency operations in all types of terrain.
