Lt Gen KH Singh takes charge of Infantry School

Guwahati: Lt Gen Konsam Himalay Singh, an alumnus of Sainik School, Goalpara (SSG), took charge as the commandant of Infantry School, Mhow, in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.
The first Army general from the northeast, who rose to the level of a corps commander, Lt. Gen Singh commanded the 16th Corps under Northern Command, the largest corps of the Army before taking over his new assignment at Mhow, defence spokesman Col SD Goswami said.
The Infantry School is the alma mater of the infantry, the largest and most potent combat arm of the Army. The premier establishment ranks among the top training institutes in the world.
Lt Gen Singh said, “We should have more generals, air marshals and admirals from my school and students should aspire for the same. In the years to come, we will surely have many.”
Lt Gen Singh, an officer from the Rajput Regiment, has been decorated with the Yudh Seva Medal (YSM) for commanding his unit in Operation Vijay and later the Ati Vishist Seva Medal (AVSM) for commanding an Army division on the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir.
An avid golfer, mountaineer and sky diver, Lt Gen Singh was commissioned into the Rajput Regiment in 1978 and is an infantry soldier with vast operational experience. A 1968-batch student of SSG, Lt Gen Singh is married to Mangala Devi, a doctor. He hails from Charangpat village in Thoubal district of Manipur and is also an alumnus of the National Defence Academy.