THE TRIBUNE
Lieutenant General SN Handa will take over as the Director General of Infantry of the Indian Army tomorrow.Commissioned on November 14, 1971 into the 5th Battalion of the 3rd Gorkha Rifles on the eve of the Indo-Pak War of 1971, the General has served along the borders of the country from Rajasthan and Punjab in the West to Jammu and Kashmir in the North, Himachal-Tibet Border in the Centre and Sikkim, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh in the East.
He commanded his battalion at Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab at the peak of militancy in the state from 1990-93. He has also commanded a brigade during Op Parakram.
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