Eastern command chief of Indian Army completes Bhutan tour

Thimphu, Aug 10: General-Officer-Commanding-In-Chief of the Indian army’s eastern command, Lt. General Arvind Sharma completed his five day long Bhutan visit on Thursday.

In his regular visit to this Himalayan kingdom, Sharma stressed for strengthening surety relation between Bhutan and India.

In his meeting with His Majesty King Jigme Singye on August 7, Sharma expressed satisfaction over the relation between the two countries with regard to security, which he said would grow in the days to come.

During his stay in Bhutan, Sharma also met four queens, Prime Minister Lyonpo Sangey Ngedup and the Chief Operations Officer of the Royal Bhutan Army Gonglen Wogma Batoo Tshering and discussed security management.

Indian Army has five security posts in Bhutan at present. All RBA soldiers are trained in India.

Sharman had served in the Military Operations Directorate in headquarters of Indian Army, as the Defence Attache in Kathmandu, Nepal, and as the Colonel General Staff of a Mountain Division in insurgency areas and has distinction of commanding in Mountain Division in the East and a Corps in the Northern Command. He is the Colonel of the Regiment, 4 Gorkha Rifles, and the President of the Gorkha Brigade. He took over as GOC-in–C of the Eastern Command on January 1, 2005. Bhutan News Service