Lieutenant General PC Thimmaya
Bathinda, July 5
Lieutenant General PC Thimmaya took over the command of Chetak Corps from Lieutenant General Ashwani Kumar at a solemn military ceremony.
A Mechanised Infantry Officer, commissioned in 1981, he has varied experiences at the Western and Eastern fronts. Besides commanding a Mechanised Infantry Brigade, he has commanded a strike RAPID division and has held important staff appointments at Integrated HQ of MoD (Army).
He has also been a military observer with UN mission (Angola) and Defence Attache in Bangladesh.— TNS
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