General Vijay Kumar Singh PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC is the 26th General of the Indian Army and currently the Chief of Army Staff.
Vijay Kumar Singh comes from Bapora village in Bhiwani district of Haryana state. Singh is a third-generation officer. His father was a Colonel in the Indian Army and grandfather a senior Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO). Singh was educted at Birla Public School, Pilani, Rajasthan.
Singh was commissioned into the 2nd Battalion of The Rajput Regiment (Kali Chindi) on 14 June 1970. He went on to command the same unit when it was positioned along the Line of Control with Pakistan.
He graduated from the Defence Services Staff College as a honours graduate of the United States Army Infantry School, a graduate of the Rangers Course at Fort Benning and the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In the US for the Rangers course, he came first in combat operations.
Singh is experienced in counter insurgency operations and high altitude operations. He has also seen action in the 1971 Bangladesh war. During his career he has served in various positions:
Military Operations Directorate at the Army Headquarters.
Brigadier General Staff of a Corps during 'Operation Parakram' when Indian troops were mobilised on the border in the wake of the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001.
Commanded[1] Ambala-based 2 Corps and Jalandhar based 11 Corps in Punjab state.
Instructor in the Indian Military Training Team (IMTRAT) headquarters in Bhutan.
Singh was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) for distinguished service while commanding a counter-insurgency force.[citation needed]
He became Chief of Army Staff on 31 March 2010 and is due for retirement on 31 May 2012.
While Singh wrote his date of birth as 10 May 1950 in the application form for the National Defence Academy, his diploma from the academy show his date of birth as 10 May 1951. Singh's later claim that he was born in 1951 was denied in 2011. On 16 January 2012, Singh filed an appeal in the Supreme Court of India.
On 11 March 2011, Singh was inducted into the United States Army War College (Class of 2001 graduate) International Fellows Hall of Fame. He is the 33rd International Fellow and the first Indian Armed Forces officer to be inducted.
Param Vishisht Seva Medal
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
Yudh Seva Medal for his distinguished service during Operation Pawan
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Government of Delhi is the supreme governing authority of the Indian national capital territory of Delhi and its 9 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, a judiciary and a legislative. The present Legislative Assembly of Delhi is unicameral, consisting of 70 Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).
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The first Chief minister of Delhi was Ch. Braham Prakash (INC) and the first women CM was Sushma Swaraj of BJP. Comrade Guru Kishan (CPI) had the rare distinction of representing his constituency in MCD (DMC initially) for most years continuously by an individual and Ch. Prem Singh (INC) has won the maximum elections for different civic bodies in Delhi.
New Delhi: Embarrassed by the unprecedented action of Army Chief Gen V K Singh in moving the Supreme Court over the issue of his age, the government was tonight finalising its strategy with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh consulting senior ministers.
The government took the expected step of filing a caveat in the Supreme Court requesting to be heard before passing any order on the writ petition filed by Gen Singh yesterday challenging the Defence Ministry’s decision not to accept his position that he was born in 1951.
Defence Minister A K Antony and Law Minister Salman Khurshid held a meeting with the Prime Minister to discuss the pros and cons of the Army Chief’s action. There was no official word on what the government’s strategy would be.
However, there was speculation that Gen Singh may be asked to proceed on leave pending the apex court’s view on his petition. But there was no confirmation of such a course from the Ministry of Defence.
All eyes are now on the Supreme Court even as some legal experts were of the view that Gen Singh should have approached Armed Forces Tribunal for redress of his complaint that his date of birth be taken as May 10,1951 and not as May 10,1950.
The apex court will be hearing on Friday a petition filed by The Grenadiers Association, Rohtak Chapter, in support of Gen Singh. It remains to be seen as to whether the court admits the petition filed by Gen Singh under Article 32 of the Constitution guaranteeing fundamental rights.
In his petition, the Army Chief is believed to have sought a direction to declare his date of birth as May 10,1951 and for grant of all consequential reliefs and benefits.
The petition contended that the July 21, 2011 order of the Defence Ministry had set aside an order of the Adjutant General's Branch on February 25,2011 that recognised his date of birth as May 10, 1951.
The petition held that it was an ex parte decision of the Ministry in violation of principles of natural justice on the opinion given by the Attorney General.
Gen Singh claimed that the Defence Ministry unilaterally, on the Attorney General's advice, treated February 25 order as null and void.
Advocate Prabhjit Jauhar, who is one of the lawyers for Singh, said the General has argued that the Law Ministry had also given a similar opinion on February 14,2011.
Congress sources, meanwhile, said the government had gone the extra mile to placate the Army Chief and had obtained three opinions from legal experts including twice from the Attorney General on his age issue.
The exercise of taking the three opinions was "only to satisfy" Gen Singh and persuade him against going to the Court, they said.
Government was "helpless" in the matter as the three opinions went against the Army Chief, the sources said adding that in order to defuse the issue, back channel talks were also held with Gen Singh and "this must have been accompanied by some other offer".
Rules and regulations require that the age issue needed to be raised by an officer much before his retirement and matters do not help if they are brought to the fore just before superannuation, they said.
What had compounded the matter was that while two of the records about the date of birth cited by the Army Chief were in his favour, one was against and there was confusion about the fourth, the sources claimed.
New Delhi pronunciation, नई दिल्ली, نئی دلّی, is the capital city of India. As the national capital, New Delhi is the seat of executive, legislative and judiciary branches of the Government of India. It also serves as the centre of the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi and is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is 1500 km2. New Delhi hosts 145 foreign embassies and high commissions.
The foundation of the city was laid on December 15, 1911. It was planned by two leading 20th century British architects namely Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker. The new Capital was christened "New Delhi" in 1927, and subsequently inaugurated on February 13, 1931, by British India's Governor-General Lord Irwin. On December 12, 2011, New Delhi celebrated 100 years of Capitalship, making it another landmark year in the long history of the historic capital of the region of Delhi.
New Delhi is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Humayun's Tomb and the Qutub complex. There are areas like Old Delhi and Mehrauli in New Delhi which have a number of heritage structures.
It is one of the fastest growing cities in the world and has a total population of nearing three hundred thousand residents. New Delhi is one of the world’s top global cities. The World Cities Study Group at Loughborough University rated New Delhi as an "alpha- world city". The National Geographic's Traveler Magazine describes it as "one of the Ultimate Cities of a Lifetime to visit and explore. In a report jointly prepared by Institute for Competitiveness and Confederation of Indian Industry, the city is listed as the best to live in India. According to Mercer, New Delhi is the most expensive city in India for expatriates in terms of cost of living. New Delhi is known for its wide, tree-lined boulevards and is home to numerous national institutions, museums and landmarks.
