Chennai, July 31 -- Lieutenant General V Sreehari, will take over as the new General Officer Commanding (GoC), Dakshin Bharat Area in Chennai, with effect from tomorrow.
The Dakshin Bharat Area is the Indian Army formation covering peninsular India, including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the two UTs of Puducherry and Lakshadweep.
The General Officer is the son of Late Petty Officer M Velayudhan Nair & Mrs Sulochana Nair of Naduvath(Vill), Wandoor, Malappuram, Kerala. He is an alumnus of Sainik School Amaravati Nagar, National Defence Academy Khadakvasla and the Indian Military Academy Dehradun.
He was commissioned into the new raising 16 Sikh Light Infantry Battalion on June 13, 1987 and subsequently ...