Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan took over as Director General of Military Operations(DGMO) on Tuesday, ANI reported. Chauhan will now oversee a number of the Army’s operations, including the ones carried out along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

He succeeds Lieutenant General Anil Bhatt, who will take charge as the new commander of the 15 Corps, also called the Chinar Corps, while Lieutenant General JS Sandhu, who was heading the Srinagar-based unit till now, has been promoted to the rank of Military Secretary.

Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan was earlier commander of the Dimapur-based 3 Corps. He has held several important posts in the Army and is known for his expertise in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast.  He was commissioned into the 11th Gorkha Rifles in 1981, and has also served as a military observer for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Angola.