SSC GD 2023 PYQ — Question 37

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Manoj Pande

On April 30, 2022, General Manoj Pande succeeded General Manoj Mukund Naravane as the 29th Chief of Staff of the Army Staff.

• Naravane was superannuated after an extraordinary 40 years of service.
• The British Indian Army was established on April 1st, 1895, and was the forerunner of the Indian Army.
• It assumed its present shape on January 15, 1949, when General Sir Francis Butcher, the final British Commander-in-Chief of India, was replaced by Field Marshal Kodandera M. Cariappa as the first Chief of Staff of the Indian Army.
• The Commanders-in-Chief (Change in Designation) Act of the Indian Parliament established the position of Chief of Army Staff in 1955.