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| Lt Gen. Yadava inspects the guard of honour at the Assam Rifles headquarters in Shillong |
New general takes over reins in Shillong
Lt Gen. Karan Singh Yadava took charge as the director-general of Assam Rifles on June 10 during a ceremony held at the Assam Rifles headquarters, Laitumkhrah, Shillong.
The new DG from Gorkha Regiment was earlier the commandant, Infantry School, Mhow, Madhya Pradesh.
An alumnus of Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, and College of Defence Management, Secunderabad, Lt Gen. Yadava was commissioned into the 3rd Gorkha Rifles in November 1971, prior to the Bangladesh war.
He was honoured with Ati Vishisht Seva Medal as a division commander in Assam.
While serving as a brigadier, he was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal and Sena Medal for operations launched against militants in Jammu and Kashmir.
A free medical camp conducted under the aegis of HQ IGAR (N) and HQ 5 Sect, 42 Assam Rifles in Ngalwa village on June 10 had nearly 500 people queue for treatment.
The camp, organised for the people of Ngalwa and the adjoining villages, were facilities like check-up for gynaecological problems, pulse polio, HIV (AIDS) information counselling. It even had a pathology cell.
A special dental section was also set up to provide free treatment of villagers.
The organisers, 42 Assam Rifles, stressed upon the importance of good health and hygiene, which include proper sanitation, and assured the villagers that the relentless efforts of Assam Rifles to provide medical facility in the remote areas would continue in times to come.
Technology is being used to good effect by the 58 Gorkha Rifles. It has become the first regiment in the army throwing open information of all its serving and retired/discharged personnel, which can now be accessed at its Jawan Suchana Kendra.
Maj. Gen. K.S. Sethi, the general officer commanding of the 58 Gorkha Rifles, inaugurated the centre.
The system, run on digital technology with software developed in-house by officers and staffers of the personnel office, is unique.
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