Lieutenant General Pratik Sharma on Thursday assumed charge as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army’s Udhampur-based Northern Command.
He succeeded Lieutenant General M V Suchindra Kumar, who completed his four-decade career in the Army on April 30.
Lt General Sharma is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla; the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun; and the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. He was commissioned into the Madras Regiment in December 1987.
He also has a rich operational experience, having commanded an infantry battalion, brigade and division along the Line of Control, besides a strike corps in the Western Sector.
Lt General Sharma has also served as a staff officer in the UN Mission and has held important appointments at Military Operations Directorate and Military Secretary Branch at Army headquarters. He was also the Director General of Military Operations and Deputy Chief of Army Staff (strategy) prior to taking over as commander of the Northern Command.
On assuming command, he conveyed his greetings to all ranks and expressed his commitment to taking forward the work of his predecessors and all ranks of the Northern Command.
