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Name Photo Decorations Reference Commandant Indian Military Academy: Lieutenant General: Sandeep Jain: AVSM, SM [47] Commandant National Defence Academy: Presently tenanted by a Navy officer Commandant Armed Forces Medical College: Pankaj P Rao Commandant Officers Training Academy, Chennai: Michael AJ Fernandez AVSM, VSM [48]
An 1832 journal reports that during the colonial British raj era, the Commander-in-Chief of British Army (ex officio role of the serving Monarch of Britain) promulgated an order directing that the Lieutenant Colonel of H.M. (Royal British Army) can not be superseded by the East India Company's Indian Army's Lieutenant Colonel. Whenever an ...
For his bravery in Naga Insurgency in 1968, Jas Ram Singh was awarded India's highest peace time gallantry award Ashoka Chakra.On 30 October 1969, he was granted a permanent commission as a lieutenant in the Special List of the Indian Army with seniority from 29 April 1967 (seniority as second lieutenant from 29 April 1965 and seniority for pay from 13 October 1963). [1]
Colonel is a rank in the Indian Army. Like other armies, this rank is higher than lieutenant colonel a It is equivalent to captain in the Indian Navy and group captain in the Indian Air Force. The Indian Army has followed the British Army rank system since India's independence from the British Empire in 1947.
Indian Army: 20 December 1997 [20] Lieutenant-Colonel: Indian Army: 16 December 2004 [21] Colonel: Indian Army: 1 May 2007 [22] Brigadier: Indian Army: 24 May 2013 (acting) 9 September 2013 (substantive, with seniority from 24 June 2011) [23] Major General: Indian Army: 1 December 2018 (seniority from 1 February 2017) [24] Lieutenant-General ...
Indian Army: 7 July 1989 15 December 1989 (substantive) [60] Major: Indian Army: 15 December 1995 [61] Lieutenant Colonel: Indian Army: 11 July 2001 16 December 2004 (substantive) [62] Colonel: Indian Army: 1 April 2006 [63] Brigadier: Indian Army: 13 June 2011 (acting) 30 December 2011 (substantive, with seniority from 6 April 2010) [64] Major ...
In February 2022, he took over as the Colonel of the Grenadiers from Lieutenant General Rajeev Sirohi. [12] In April 2023, he was appointed Chief of Staff of South Western Command in Jaipur. On 26 January 2024, he was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal. He retired on 30th of June 2024 after 39 years of glorious service in the Indian army. [13]
Chief of Army Staff General V. K. Singh bestowing the honorary rank of Lieutenant colonel to Dhoni. Dhoni holds an honorary rank of Lieutenant colonel in the Parachute Regiment of the Indian Territorial Army (106 Para TA battalion). [140] The honorary rank was presented to him by the Indian Army in 2011 for his service to the nation as a ...