Lieutenant. General. Abhay Krishna(St. Xavier’s Alumni 1974 Batch)
Event date : 31st Jul, 2017
Lieutenant. General. Abhay Krishna(St. Xavier’s Alumni 1974 Batch) has been appointed as head of the Army’s crucial Eastern Command which guards a major part of Sino-India border including the Sikkim sector where armies of India and China have been locked in a face-off.
Lt. Gen. Krishna, who was heading the Army’s South Western Command and has vast experience of the Sikkim sector,
He is a gallantry award winner in counter insurgency operations in Manipur and commanded Rashtriya Rifles Battalion in the Kashmir Valley.
He had also served two tenures as UN observer in Mozambique and Rawanda and another in Burundi.