Lieutenant General MV Suchindra Kumar on Wednesday here assumed the appointment of the Vice Chief of the Army Staff. He has taken over the charge from Lieutenant General BS Raju who will now head the Jaipur based Sapta Shakti Command.
Prior to taking over as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff, Kumar was tenanting the appointment of Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Strategy) at Army Headquarters here. He has experience in intelligence, operations, force structuring, operational logistics and tech infusion in his recent appointments.
An alumnus of Sainik School Bijapur and National Defence Academy, Kumar was commissioned into 1 Assam Regiment in 1985. He has commanded 59 Rashtriya Rifles Battalion, an Infantry Brigade and an Infantry Division on the Line of Control(LOC) and the highly active White Knight Corps in Northern Command.
The Officer has held various staff and instructional appointments to include an instructional tenure at Infantry School, Mhow, Senior Operations Officer in the United Nations Sector in Cambodia, Colonel (Policy) in Military Secretary Branch, Indian Army Training Team at Lesotho, Brigadier General Staff (Operations) of a Corps in the Eastern Theatre, Additional Director General Military Intelligence and Director General Military Intelligence at Army HQ.
Kumar has attended the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, Higher Command Course, Mhow and the National Defence College, New Delhi. He has also attended courses on ‘Cooperative Security in South Asia’ in Sri Lanka and ‘United Nations Senior Mission Leaders Course’ in Egypt. His military papers have been published in a number of professional journals.