Rana Pratap Kalita UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM is a serving Lieutenant General in the Indian Army. He is currently the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Indian Army's Eastern Command.

Personal life

He is

Assamese Assamese may refer to: * Assamese people, a socio-ethnolinguistic identity of north-eastern India * People of Assam, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic and multi-religious people of Assam * Assamese language, one of the easternmost Indo-Aryan language ...

by ethnicity and was born in Rangia of Kamrup District to Renu Kalita and Jogendra Kalita. He is an alumnus of

Sainik School, Goalpara Sainik School Goalpara, Assam, India, was established on 12 November 1964, under the Sainik Schools Society, New Delhi under the Ministry of Defence (India). The idea of Sainik School, Sainik schools were presented by the then Defence Minister ...

and National Defence Academy Khadakwasla.

Military career

General Kalita was commissioned in 9 Kumaon Regiment on 9 June 1984 from Indian Military Academy

Dehradun Dehradun () is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislative As ...

. He had commanded III Corps and was the Chief of Staff of Eastern Command. He served as Director General - Manpower Planning and Personnel Services at Army Headquarters. General Kalita is a recepeint of UYSM, AVSM, SM and VSM. He became the first

to hold the charge of General Officer-Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Command. He succeeded Lieutenant General

Manoj Pande General Manoj Pande, (born 6 May 1962) is an Indian Army General serving as the 29th and the current Chief of the Army Staff. He previously served as the Vice Chief of the Army Staff, General Officer-Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Comma ...

on his elevation to Vice Chief of the Army Staff.

Awards and decorations

Dates of rank

References

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