Yol-based Rising Star Corps gets 16th GOC

ibune News Service

Chandigarh, March 26

Lieutenant General PN Ananthanarayanan has taken over as the 16th General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Yol-based Rising Star Corps. He was the Commandant, Infantry School at Mhow, before assuming the present appointment.

An alumni of the Rashtriya Indian Military College, National Defence Academy and National Defence College, he was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion of the 8th Gorkha Rifles in December 1984.

During his career spanning 36 years, he has held various staff, instructional and command appointments, including command of an Infantry Division on the Line of Actual Control. He has also been an instructor at the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, and Senior Instructor at Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.

Apart from being a postgraduate in defence and strategic studies, and doing MPhil in defence and management studies from the Madras University, Lt Gen Ananthanarayanan holds a postgraduate diploma in personal management and industrial relations from Symbiosis, Pune. He was awarded the Sena Medal in 2019.