Rajendra Ramrao Nimbhorkar
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Rajendra Ramrao Nimbhorkar,
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who served as the Master General Ordnance (MGO). He assumed office on 9 August 2017 after Lieutenant General Ravi Thodge retired. He was part of one of the strike corp which was responsible for carrying out three strikes inside POK in Surgical Strikes held in 2016 by the Indian Army to clean out all the Pakistani Terrorists Camps. As surgical strikes were carried out very secretly to maintain surprise, so very few people knew of them, one of those involved was Lt. Gen. Nimbhorkar.


Early life and education

Nimbhorkar hails from a farming family in
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. He is an alumnus of
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, Pune and Indian Military Academy, Dehradun.He has also attended the military course at National Defence University,
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and the National Defence College,
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Career

Nimbhorkar was commissioned into 15 Punjab Regiment in 1979.He has served in an operational role in several regions including Leh,
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, Poonch, Rajauri, Rajasthan and Northeast India. He has held various command positions including 15 Punjab in Jammu and Kashmir; an infantry brigade Naoshera;
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; General Officer Commanding (GOC), Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa; GOC of XVI Corps (Nagrota) in 2015 before taking over as MGO at Army HQ. He has served as a UN military observer in Angola. He was also appointed the Colonel of the Punjab Regiment on 1 March 2015. Nimbhorkar was critically injured during Operation Vijay on
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in Rajouri sector, commanding 15 Punjab. He also captured an enemy post in Dras sector as a captain and he killed 22 terrorists in
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of Kashmir as a Major. During his career, he has been awarded COAS Commendation Card; C-in-C SFC Commendation Card;
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(gallantry) commanding a company in Dras sector;
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(distinguished service) commanding a brigade in Naoshera;
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in Akhnoor sector; Uttam Yudh Sewa Medal in Nagrota;
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in south Kashmir and
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as Master General of the Ordnance. Lt. Gen. R.R. Nimbhorkar (Retd.) has been awarded Ph D. from Chaudhary Charan Singh University Meerut in July 2022.


Honours and decorations


References

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