Secunderabad: Major General Ranjeet Singh Manral took over as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Telangana and Andhra sub area (TASA) in Secunderabad on 6 January.
Major Gen. Ranjeet Singh was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers in 1990. He is a third-generation army officer, a recipient of a national talent search scholarship, and an alumnus of National Defence Academy, Pune, and Indian Military Academy, Dehradun.
He is also a graduate from Defence Services Staff College Wellington and has attended specialist courses at the College of Defence Management, Secunderabad, and National Defence College, Delhi.
The General Officer is a paratrooper and has served in the elite parachute brigade. He has commanded a specialist engineer regiment and an infantry brigade of a strike corps. Having excelled in all courses, he has been an instructor at the College of Military Engineering, Pune, and Indian Military Academy, Dehradun.
He was awarded four commendation cards for his meritorious service. He has tested a number of important staff appointments in operational and administrative roles.