Friday, 02 September 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
Lieutenantgeneral Vijay Kumar Mishra took over as the new commandant of the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun on Wednesday. He replaced lieutenant general Harinder Singh who superannuated after a service of 40 years in the Indian Army.
After taking over the reins of the prestigious training academy the commandant paid his tribute at the War Memorial in a solemn ceremony recognising the supreme sacrifice of brave soldiers for the nation.
An alumnus of IMA Dehradun, Mishra was commissioned into the 17th battalion the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles in December 1985. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and has attended the Higher Command Course at the Army War College, Mhow as well as the prestigious National Defence College at New Delhi. He has a rich and varied operational experience spanning over more than three decades including serving at the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir, where he was also wounded in operations. He has also actively participated in counter insurgency operations at various levels including tenures with Rashtriya Rifles in South Kashmir and in Tripura with Assam Rifles.
He was the GOC of a mountain division in the north east having an operational role on the Indo-China border and has also held crucial staff appointments such as Head of Operations Branch of a Strike Division as well as of the Mountain Strike Corps. Before taking over the charge as the Commandant, IMA, lieutenant general Mishra was GOC of the Delhi area.
