Biography Of Lieutenant General Manoj Mukund Naravane

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INDIAN ARMY

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The Indian Army is also the second-largest standing army in the world.

Lieutenant General Manoj Mukund Naravane, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC is the Chief of the Army Staff (CoAS) designate, he will succeed General Bipin Rawat currently he is the 40th Vice Chief of Army Staff(VCoAS) of the Indian Army.
Prior to his appointment , he was the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) Eastern Command and before that General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Army Training Command.

He completed his school education in Jnana Prabodhini Prashala, Pune. Naravane is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Pune and Indian Military Academy, Dehradun.
He also holds a master’s degree in Defence Studies from University of Madras, Chennai and an M.Phil. in Defence and Management Studies from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore

Naravane was commissioned into 7th Sikh Light Infantry in June 1980. He has vast experience and has served in Counter-Insurgency Operations in Kashmir and Northeast India, he is a China and Myanmar specialist.
He has commanded a Rashtriya Rifles battalion in Jammu and Kashmir; an Infantry brigade; Assam Rifles in Northeast India as Inspector General (North).
In addition, he was an instructor at the Army War College, Mhow and served as the Indian Defence Attache to Myanmar.He was also the commander of the 2017 Republic Day Parade.

Naravane served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Army Training Command from 1 December 2017 to 30 September 2018.
Later, he also served as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command from 1 October 2018 to 31 August 2019.
On 1st September 2019, he was appointed Vice Chief of the Army Staff (VCoAS) and became the senior-most serving general after General Bipin Rawat.

On 16th December 2019 (71 war Vijay Diwas) eve he was announced as the successor of General Rawat as he will relinquish CoAS office on 31th december 2019.