C P Mohanty | |
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42nd Vice Chief of the Army Staff | |
In office 1 February 2021 –31 January 2022 | |
President | Ram Nath Kovind |
Preceded by | Satinder Kumar Saini |
Succeeded by | Manoj Pande |
Personal details | |
Born | Jayabada,Jagatsinghpur Sub-Division,Cuttack district (now Jagatsinghpur district),Odisha [1] |
Awards | Param Vishisht Seva Medal Ati Vishisht Seva Medal Vishisht Seva Medal Sena Medal |
Military service | |
Allegiance | India |
Branch/service | Indian Army |
Years of service | June 1982 –31 January 2022 |
Rank | Lieutenant General |
Unit | Rajput Regiment |
Commands | Southern Command Uttar Bharat Area XXXIII Corps |
Battles/wars | Insurgency in Northeast India |
Lieutenant General Chandi Prasad Mohanty PVSM AVSM SM VSM is a retired General Officer in the Indian Army. [2] He was the 42nd Vice Chief of the Army Staff and assumed office on 1 February 2021,following the retirement of Satinder Kumar Saini. [3] He was previously the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Southern Command, [1] assuming command on 30 January 2020. [4] He was trained at RIMC Dehradun.[ citation needed ]
Mohanty was born in Jagatsinghpur,Odisha to Jitendra K. Mohanty,a civil servant,and Sarada Mohanty,a professor of Odia at S.V.M. College. [5] Following his education at Bagashai U. P. School,he joined the Rashtriya Indian Military College,Dehradun. He subsequently entered the National Defence Academy (NDA). He holds an M. Phil and a Master's in Management and has conducted extensive studies of China,South Asia,and northeastern India. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College,Wellington. [4]
Mohanty was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Rajput Regiment in June 1982. He has commanded battalions in both Jammu and Kashmir and in Northeast India,and has held staff appointments in an armoured brigade and in the military secretariat. He commanded a UN multi-national brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has served as a military advisor to the Seychelles government. [4] He has also commanded a mountain brigade along the India-China border and a mountain division in Assam in 2014. [1] He also served as Director General of operational logistics and strategic movement at the Integrated Headquarters of the Ministry of Defence (Army) at New Delhi. After the Doklam standoff,he commanded the XXXIII Corps [6] in the Eastern Command and was then appointed GOC Uttar Bharat Area at Bareilly. [4]
Insignia | Rank | Component | Date of rank |
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Second Lieutenant | Indian Army | 12 June 1982 [7] | |
Lieutenant | Indian Army | 12 June 1984 [8] | |
Captain | Indian Army | 12 June 1987 | |
Major | Indian Army | 12 June 1993 [9] | |
Lieutenant-Colonel | Indian Army | 16 December 2004 [10] | |
Colonel | Indian Army | 1 March 2006 [11] | |
Brigadier | Indian Army | 5 December 2009 (substantive,with seniority from 8 January 2009) [12] | |
Major General | Indian Army | 10 January 2015 (substantive,with seniority from 4 June 2012) [13] | |
Lieutenant-General | Indian Army | 20 May 2017 (seniority from 1 May) [14] | |
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