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New Commander for 14 Corps

By Our Staff Reporter

Jammu May 17. Lieutenant General Arvind Sharma has been appointed new commander of the Leh-based strategic 14 Corps in the sensitive operational frontier of Ladakh sector.

The Corps, which was created after the Kargil war, looks after the area bordering Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir and also the Chinese border, referred as Line of Actual Control.

The world's highest and coldest battlefield, Siachen glacier, also comes under the operational control of this military formation.The Corps recently shot into prominence after its former Commander, Arjun Ray, launched the much-famous Sadbhavana Project — a programme of civilian-Army interaction to boost the image of troops among the locals.

A release from the Udhampur based Northern Command headquarters today said that Lt. Gen. Sharma would replace Lt. Gen. R B Singh. Lt. Gen. Sharma would be fourth Commander of the Corps. Lt. Gen. R.B. Singh has been appointed Commandant of Army War College, Mhow, the premier training institute of Indian Army.

Lt. Gen. Singh, (58), commissioned on December 25, 1965, is an alumni of the National Defence Academy, the Defence Services Staff College and the National Defence College.

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