lt Gen Aniruddha Chakravarty, VSM, took over the reins of National Cadet Corps as the director general of this premier youth organisation on December 1.
An alumnus of National Defence Academy, Pune, the General was commissioned in the Rajput Regiment of the Indian Army on December 15, 1976 and has had a distinguished career in the Armed Forces. A graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, he has done all important courses including the prestigious NDC course at New Delhi. The General has also been the Chief Operations Officer and the National Senior at UNIFIl, lebanon. He succeeds lt Gen PS Bhalla, PVSM, AVSM, who retired on November 30.