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| Lt Gen Thamburaj to be new Army Chief | | | AGENCIES
NEW DELHI, Nov 18: The government on Tuesday appointed Army's Southern Command chief Lt Gen Noble Thamburaj as the next Army vice chief after incumbent Lt Gen M L Naidu retires from service on December 31.
Lt Gen Thamburaj, the next senior most Lt Gen in the Army, will take over his new appointment from January 1, 2009, when he would move from the Pune-based Southern Command headquarters to the Army headquarters in New Delhi.
In other routine appointments, the government also issued orders promoting Udhampur-based Northern Command's Chief of Staff Lt Gen P Khanna as an Army Commander and appointed him as the next Southern Command chief in place of Lt Gen Thamburaj from the New Year Day.
On the same day, the present Army Training Command chief Lt Gen J K Mohanty will take over as the new Central Command chief.
Lt Gen Mohanty will move from Shimla to Lucknow to take over charge of the Central Command from incumbent Lt Gen H S Panag, who will retire on December 31.
The government also promoted Lt Gen B S Jawal, the present Tezpur-based 4 Corps Commander, as an Army Commander to take over the Army Training Command as its chief from Lt Gen Mohanty |
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