Gen Singh to shortly take over as chief of Southern Command

NEW DELHI: Lt Gen A K Singh, a veteran Armoured Corps officer, has been elevated to the rank of General Officer Commanding-in-Chief and will shortly take over as the chief of the Army's Pune-based Southern Command.

Commissioned in the Armoured Corps, Singh has commanded the elite 7th Light Cavalry regiment, the White Tiger Division and is presently commanding a Strike Corps along the western frontier.

A graduate of Staff College, Camberley, UK, Higher Command Course at Army War College and the National Defence College in Delhi, he has also attended prestigious courses in Russia and Sweden.

Singh has been instrumental in several key visionary initiatives as also strategic and operational planning transformation studies of the Indian Army as the Director General of Perspective Planning at Army Headquarters here.

The General officer is presently the Colonel of the Scinde Horse, 74 and 51 Armoured Regiments.