New Eastern Command chief
Source: The Sangai Express
New Delhi, August 01 2017:
Lt Gen Abhay Krishna has been appointed as head of the Army's crucial Eastern Command which guards a major part of Sino-India border including the Sikkim sector where armies of India and China have been locked in a face-off .
Lt Gen Krishna, who was heading the Army's South Western Command and has vast experience of the Sikkim sector, succeeds Lt Gen Praveen Bakshi, who retired today .
"Lt Gen Abhay Krishna brings with him a great measure of professional competence and vast operational experience," the Army said in a statement .
He has served four tenures along the Line of Actual Control on the northern borders and commanded an infantry battalion in Sikkim.
He had also commanded an infantry division and a Corps in the North East .
Krishna assumed charge of the Eastern command today.