Lieutenant General K Surendranath took over as the Chief of Staff of Southern Command on Feb 11.
Lt Gen Surendranath was commissioned into the 71 Armoured Regiment in 1975, who later went on to command the same Regiment. He has held number of challenging Command appointments in the Western, Northern and Eastern theatres that includes command of an Independent Armoured Brigade, an Infantry Division in Counter Insurgency environment, and a Corps deployed along the International Border opposite Tibet Administrative Region.
He has also been awarded with Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, and Sena Medal and Vishisht Seva Medal for his meritorious service. The General Officer has headed the operations branch of Southern Command in 2010-11, where he oversaw the operationalisation of Exercise ‘Sudarshan Shakti’.