Abhay Krishna

Lieutenant General Abhay Krishna, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM is the current General Officer Commander-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Eastern Command of the Indian Army and assumed office on 1 August 2017. He assumed the post after Lieutenant General Praveen Bakshi retired.

Early life and Education
Krishna is an alumnus of St Xavier's High School, Patna and National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla.

Career
Krishna was commissioned into Rajputana Rifles on 7 June 1980. He has vast experience and has served four tenures along Line of Actual Control, two tenures as UN observer, in Mozambique & Rawanda and as Chief of Staff (UN forces) in Burundi. He has commanded a Rashtriya Rifles Battalion in the Kashmir valley, an infantry battalion in Sikkim, Brigadier General Staff 3 Corps, 27 Mountain division (Kalimpong), Chief of Staff (Delhi area) and III Corps (Dimapur). He took over as the GOC-in-C of the South Western Command on 25 January 2017. He commanded the RR during Operation Hifazat (Manipur) and Operation Rakshak (Kupwara).

During 37 years of his career, he has won a gallantry award for counter insurgency in Manipur. He has also been awarded a Vishisht Sena Medal, Sena Medal, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 2014 m Uttam Yudh Seva Medal in 2017 and Param Vishisht Seva Medal in 2018. He is also the Colonel of the Regiment Rajputana Rifles and was Second-in-Command for the Republic Day parade in 2015.