Later the Indian Army’s Southern Command Chief, Lt Gen. SK Saini is the Indian Army’s new vice chief. He took charge of his authority a day before Republic Day.
The post foe the vice chief fell vacant after Lt Gen MM Naravane was promoted to the post of Chief of Army Staff.
About Lt Gen. S.K Saini
He is an alumnus of Sainik School in Kapurthala and the National Defence Academy. Lt Gen Saini was commissioned into the Jat Regiment of Indian Army in June 1981.
He commanded his battalion (7 Jat), a mountain brigade, a counter-insurgency force in Jammu and Kashmir, a corps in the western theatre before heading the Pune-headquartered Southern Army Command.
Lt Gen Saini has also been a weapons instructor in the National Security Guard’s Training Centre, senior directing staff at the National Defence College, New Delhi and the Commandant of the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun.
Along with being the Southern Command Chief he had also served as the Deputy Chief Military Personnel Officer in UN Mission in Iraq. He has also attended an exercise on peacekeeping conducted by the Global Peace Operations initiative in Mongolia and a counter-terrorism exercise in Australia.
Awards and Honours
During his long service of almost 29 years in Indian Army , Lt Gen Saini has been conferred with a number of awards, both for gallantry and distinguished service, including the “Chief of Army Staff Commendation”, “Army Commander Commendation”, “Yudh Seva Medal”, “Vishisht Seva Medal” (VSM), and the “Ati Vishisht Seva Medal” (AVSM).
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