Sanjha Morcha

4 AFPI alumni of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute (AFPI), Mohali, commissioned as Army officers

Chandigarh, June 13

Four alumni of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute (AFPI), Mohali, were among the 423 Gentlemen Cadets, including 90 foreign cadets, who were commissioned as officers at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, today.

They included Lt Karan Singh Cheema, a third-generation officer who has joined the Assam Regiment, and Simranjit Singh, who has joined his father’s regiment, Skinner’s Horse.

D Gurbaz Singh and Gurlal Singh have joined the Regiment of Artillery.

They were from the fourth batch of the institute that was set up by the Punjab Government to arrest the declining trend of youth from the state joining the armed forces as commissioned officers. — TNS