Скачать или смотреть Appointment Of Lt Gen Manoj Pande As The New Army Chief In Light Of India-China Standoff

Lt-General Manoj Pande will take over as the next Army chief from General M M Naravane on April 30, becoming the first-ever officer commissioned in the Corps of Engineers to head the 12-lakh strong force.

The government has gone by the seniority principle in announcing the next Army chief, with Lt-Gen Pande being the senior most Lt-Gen in the force. The country's next chief of defence staff (CDS), however, is yet to be announced, well over four months after Gen Bipin Rawat's untimely death in a helicopter crash, though Gen Naravane is considered to be the frontrunner. A CDS can serve till the age of 65, while the Army, Navy and IAF chiefs serve till 62 or for three years, whichever is earlier.

Lt-Gen Pande, who turns 60 on May 6, will take over as the Army chief at a time when there are still no signs of any de-escalation in the almost two-year long military confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh.

Lt General Manoj Pande has experience in handling Pakistan, China borders

He is well-versed with China, having first served as the 4 'Gajraj' Corps commander in the north-east, which looks after both the Line of Actual Control as well as counter-insurgency operations, and then later as the general officer commanding-in-chief of the Eastern Command from June 2021 to Jan 2022 before he became the Army vice-chief.

There is also the drastic need to slash the non-operational flab in the Army, which has a skewed 84:16 ratio in terms of revenue expenditure (day-to-day operating costs and salaries) relative to the capital one for modernization.

"Lt-Gen Pande will have to take forward the transformation of the manpower-intensive Army into a lean, mean and future-ready fighting machine, with a much better teeth-to-tail ratio," a senior officer said.

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