Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 21: The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has appointed Lt General Subrata Saha as new General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Srinagar based 15 Corps and Lt General BS Negi as GOC of Leh based 14 Corps.
Lt Gen Saha would replace Lt Gen Gurmit Singh as new head of 15 Corps while Lt Gen Negi would replace Lt Gen Rakesh Sharma as GOC of 14 Corps.
Lt Gen KH Singh had sometimes back taken over as GOC of Nagrota based 16 Corps.
On June 1 this year, Lt Gen D S Hooda had been appointed as GOC-in-C of Northern Command replacing Lt Gen Sanjiv Chachra.
Lt Gen Hooda was GOC of 16 Corps prior to take over by Lt Gen KH Singh.