Tarun Kumar Aich

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Lieutenant General
Tarun Kumar Aich
PVSM AVSM
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Lt Gen Tarun Kumar Aich PVSM, AVSM
4th DCOAS (Strategy)
Deputy Chief of the Army Staff (Strategy)
Assumed office
14 March 2023

Lieutenant General Tarun Kumar Aich, PVSM, AVSM (born 19 October 1964) is a serving General Officer of the Indian Army. He is the 4th and the current Deputy Chief of the Army Staff. [2] [3] He is the first officer from the Madras Regiment to become the Deputy Chief of Army Staff DCOAS (Strategy), assuming office from Lt Gen M. V. Suchindra Kumar on 14 Mar 2023. [2] Previously, he was the Director General of Military Intelligence. Prior to that, he was GOC Trishakti Corps (XXXIII Corps). [4] [5] He earlier served as the Director General of National Cadet Corps. [6] [7] [8] [9]

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Early life and education

He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla where he graduated with the Degree of Bachelor of Arts and the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. He is also an alumnus of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and Army War College, Mhow. He had undergone the Command and General Staff Course (CGSC) at Hamburg, Germany. He is a Postgraduate and holds an MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies from the Madras University. [10]

Military career

He was commissioned into 16th battalion of the Madras Regiment (Travancore) in June 1986 from the Indian Military Academy. [11] He has commanded his battalion in the Siachen Glacier and in the intense counter terrorism environment of the Valley Sector in Kashmir. He has held the appointment of the Brigade Major of a Brigade in Counter Insurgency Operations (CI Ops) and General Staff Officer-1 in the Military Intelligence Directorate. He has assumed command as the Colonel (General Staff) of a forward assault formation in the plains sector, served as Colonel General Staff (Planning) at Command Headquarters, and held the esteemed post of Brigadier General Staff at the prestigious Indian Military Academy, Commandant of the High Altitude Warfare School at Gulmarg. He also commanded the 12 Reorganized Army Plains Infantry Division (RAPID) in the desert sector.[ citation needed ]

On being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant general, he took over as the 33rd Director General of National Cadet Corps on 1 January 2021. [7] [12] [13]

On October 22, 2021, he took over as the GOC XXXIII Corps succeeding Lieutenant General Ajai Kumar Singh. [14] [15] [16] [17] On Dec 11, 2021, he set up a 400 litres of oxygen per minute oxygen generation plant, at the base hospital in Bengdubi near Bagdogra in Siliguri [18] On May 16, 2022, Lt Gen Tarun Kumar Aich, the GOC of Trishakti Corps, and Avinash Khare, the VC of Sikkim University signed the MoU for the Eastern Command Tibetology cadre course (ECTCC). [19] On Sept 20, 2022, he inaugurated The Avalanche Monitoring Radar (TAMR) operational in North Sikkim. It is first of its kind radar in India installed jointly by the Indian Army and Defence Geoinformatics and Research Establishment (DGRE) located at an altitude of 15,000 feet. [20] After relinquishing the command of Trishakti Corps, he moved to the Army headquarters and assumed the appointment of Director General Military Intelligence.

On 14 March 2023, he assumed the appointment as the 4th and the current Deputy Chief of the Army Staff (Strategy) succeeding Lt Gen M. V. Suchindra Kumar. [21]

Awards and decorations

He has been awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal in 2024 [22] and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 2021. [23] The general officer has been awarded the Chief of Army Staff's Commendation thrice. [2]

Param Vishisht Seva Medal ribbon.svg Ati Vishisht Seva Medal ribbon.svg
IND Special Service Medal Ribbon.svg IND Siachen Glacier Medal Ribbon.svg IND Operation Vijay medal.svg
IND Sainya Seva Medal Ribbon.svg IND High Altitude Medal Ribbon.svg IND Videsh Seva Medal Ribbon.svg 75yearmedal.svg
IND 50th Anniversary Independence medal.svg IND 30 Years Long Service Ribbon.svg IND 20YearsServiceMedalRibbon.svg IND 9YearsServiceMedalRibbon.svg
Param Vishisht Seva Medal Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
Special Service Medal Siachen Glacier Medal Operation Vijay Medal
Sainya Seva Medal High Altitude Medal Videsh Seva Medal 75th Independence Anniversary Medal
50th Independence Anniversary Medal 30 Years Long Service Medal 20 Years Long Service Medal 9 Years Long Service Medal

Dates of rank

InsigniaRankComponentDate of rank
Second Lieutenant of the Indian Army.svg Second Lieutenant Indian Army 14 June 1986 [11]
Lieutenant of the Indian Army.svg Lieutenant Indian Army14 June 1988 [24]
Captain of the Indian Army.svg Captain Indian Army14 June 1991 [25]
Major of the Indian Army.svg Major Indian Army14 June 1997 [26]
Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army.svg Lieutenant Colonel Indian Army16 December 2004 [27]
Colonel of the Indian Army.svg Colonel Indian Army1 May 2007 [28]
Brigadier of the Indian Army.svg Brigadier Indian Army14 December 2012 (acting)

1 April 2013 (substantive, with seniority from 10 June 2011) [29]

Major General of the Indian Army.svg Major General Indian Army1 October 2018 (seniority from 1 February 2017) [30]
Lieutenant General of the Indian Army.svg Lieutenant General Indian Army1 January 2021 [31]

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