Lieutenant General Chandi Prasad Mohanty is a retired General Officer in the Indian Army. He was the 42nd Vice Chief of the Army Staff and assumed office on 1 February 2021, following the retirement of Satinder Kumar Saini. He was previously the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Southern Command, assuming command on 30 January 2020. He was trained at RIMC Dehradun.
Early life and education Mohanty was born in Jagatsinghpur, Odisha to Jitendra K. Mohanty, a civil servant, and Sarada Mohanty, a professor of Odia at S.V.M. College. Following his education at Bagashai U. P. School, he joined the Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun. He subsequently entered the National Defence Academy (NDA). He holds an M. Phil and a Master's in Management and has conducted extensive studies of China, South Asia, and northeastern India. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.
Career Mohanty was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Rajput Regiment in June 1982. He has commanded battalions in both Jammu and Kashmir and in Northeast India, and has held staff appointments in an armoured brigade and in the military secretariat. He commanded a UN multi-national brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has served as a military advisor to the Seychelles government. He has also commanded a mountain brigade along the India-China border and a mountain division in Assam in 2014. He also served as Director General of operational logistics and strategic movement at the Integrated Headquarters of the Ministry of Defence (Army) at New Delhi. After the Doklam standoff, he commanded the XXXIII Corps in the Eastern Command and was then appointed GOC Uttar Bharat Area at Bareilly.
Decorations
Param Vishisht Seva MedalAti Vishisht Seva MedalSena MedalVishisht Seva MedalSpecial Service MedalOperation Parakram MedalSainya Seva MedalHigh Altitude Service MedalVidesh Seva Medal50th Anniversary of Independence Medal30 Years Long Service Medal20 Years Long Service Medal9 Years Long Service MedalMONUSCO
Dates of rank Insignia Rank Component Date of rank Second Lieutenant Indian Army 12 June 1982 Lieutenant Indian Army 12 June 1984 Captain Indian Army 12 June 1987 Major Indian Army 12 June 1993 Lieutenant-Colonel Indian Army 16 December 2004 Colonel Indian Army 1 March 2006 Brigadier Indian Army 5 December 2009 (substantive, with seniority from 8 January 2009) Major General Indian Army 10 January 2015 (substantive, with seniority from 4 June 2012) Lieutenant-General Indian Army 20 May 2017 (seniority from 1 May)
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