Chandi Prasad Mohanty

Lieutenant General Chandi Prasad Mohanty PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM is a General Officer in the Indian Army. He is the current Vice Chief of the Army Staff and assumed office on 1 February 2021 following the superannuation of Satinder Kumar Saini. He was previously the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) Southern Command, assuming command on 30 January 2020. He was trained at RIMC Dehradun.
Early life and education.
Mohanty was born to Jitendra K. Mohanty, a civil servant, and Sarada Mohanty, a professor of Odia at S.V.M. College. Following his education at Bagashai U.P. School, he joined the Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun. He subsequently entered the National Defence Academy (NDA). He holds a M. Phil and a master's in management and has conducted extensive studies of China, South Asia and northeastern India. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.
Career.
Mohanty was commissioned a Second lieutenant in the Rajput Regiment in June 1982.
He has commanded battalions in both Jammu and Kashmir and in Northeast India, and has held staff appointments in an armoured brigade and in the military secretariat. He commanded a UN multi-national brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has served as a military advisor to the Seychelles government. He has also commanded a mountain brigade along the Indo-Chinese border and a mountain division in Assam in 2014. He also served as Director General of operational logistics and strategic movement at the Integrated Headquarters of Ministry of Defence (Army) at New Delhi. After the Doklam incident, he commanded the XXXIII Corps in the Eastern Command and was then appointed GOC Uttar Bharat Area at Bareilly.