Lt General Upendra Dwivedi assumes charge of Northern Command

Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi assumed the charge of General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Udhampur-based Northern Command .

Key Points:

• He was Deputy Chief of the Army Staff prior to his new posting.
• He was commissioned into the J&K Rifles Regiment. In his 37 years of career, he served across a wide spectrum of terrain and operational profiles.
• Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi is an alumnus of Sainik School, Rewa; National Defence Academy and Indian Military Academy.
• He graduated from the prestigious Defence Service Staff College, attended Higher Command Course at Army War College and the National Defence College equivalent course at United State Army War College.