HT Correspondent

chandigarh@hindustantimes.com

chandigarh : The Ambala-based Indian Army’s Kharga Corps got a new general officer commanding (GOC) as Lt General SS Mahal assumed the charge on Monday.

The official release states: “Lt Gen SS Mahal, VSM, assumed charge as the general officer commanding of the elite Kharga Corps on February 3, 2020, from Lt Gen MJS Kahlon, AVSM, who heads for Delhi.”

The Corps is considered to be the most formidable of the army’s three strike corps. The GOC brings a plenitude of experience from his previous tenure in the Military Operations Directorate.

Lt Gen Mahal hails from Qila Kathgarh, SBS Nagar, a village steeped in the annals of Punjab’s history. The general’s forefathers helped in the signing of the famous ‘Rupnagar Treaty’ of 1831 between Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Lord Bentinck on the banks of the River Sutlej. htc