Lt Gen P R Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd)

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Lieutenant General PR Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy and was commissioned from the Indian Military Academy into the Regiment of Artillery on 15 Dec 1976. The General Officer in his illustrious career spanning 39 years has a very judicious mix of Command, Staff and Instructional Appointments in varied operational environments to include high altitude area, line of control opposite Pakistan, LAC opposite China, and desert terrain. He has commanded an Infantry Brigade on the Line of Control, an Infantry Division and the prestigious Strike Corps (Offensive operational tasks). He has also tenanted varied Staff Appointments including Operational Staff Assignments in the Military Operations Branch, Colonel General Staff Operations of an Infantry Division in the Valley, Brigadier General Staff (Operations) and Major General General Staff (Operations) in the most active Command Headquarters (Northern Command) involved in Counter insurgency/Counter Terrorist operations and Line of Control (Pakistan)/Line of Actual Control (China) management. In addition, the General is an Army Aviator with 1400 hours of flying in the Himalayas, and has been an instructor at school of Artillery and Senior Liaison Officer in the UN Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL), where he was in charge de-mobilisation of rebels, during its most troubled and active insurgent phase 1996. He was personally tasked by the UN Secretary General to evaluate the security situation in war torn Sierra Leone and recommend deployment of UN Peace Keepers, which was executed based on his report.