Lt Gen Bhat is new DGMO, Ranbir Singh GOC, I Corps

Chandigarh: Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) at the Army Headquarters, has been appointed as the General Officer Commanding of 1 Corps, the strike formation based at Mathura. He will take over from Lt Gen Shoukin Chauhan, who moves as the Director General, Assam Rifles, a Central Armed Police Force under the administrative control of the home ministry that has officers deputed to it from the Army. As DGMO, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh had come into public limelight when he, along with a representative from the MEA, had announced the Army’s surgical strikes in PoK. The new DGMO, Lt Gen AK Bhat, is a recently promoted Gorkha officer. Lt Gen Ranbir and Chauhan are also from the Infantry. TNS

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