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K. v. rao moxtra5/3/2023 He was a member of the faculty of the Defence Services Staff College during 1963–65. Thereafter, he served as a general staff officer grade-1 (GSO1) of a division in the Jammu Region during 1960–63. Selected for the command of a battalion, he commanded the 3rd Battalion The Mahar Regiment in Jammu and Kashmir during 1956–59. After graduating from DSSC, he was appointed general staff officer grade 2 (GSO2) in the army headquarters, where he served till 1955. In May 1951, he was selected to attend the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington. He was a founder instructor of the National Defence Academy during 1949–51. He participated in the first war against Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir in 1947–48. During the extensive Punjab disturbances in 1947, he served both in East and West Punjab. As a young officer, he served in Burma, North West Frontier and Baluchistan during the Second World War. He received an emergency commission as a second lieutenant in the 2nd battalion of the Mahar Regiment on 9 August 1942. He graduated from the Maharajah's College, Vizianagaram. Krishna Rao was born on 16 July 1923 in a Telugu Brahmin family based in Vijayawada, the son of Sri K.S.Narayan Rao and his wife, Smt.K.Lakshmi Amma. He was Governor of Jammu and Kashmir for the first time from 11 July 1989 to 19 January 1990 and the second time from 13 March 1993 till. He was the Chief of the Army Staff in 1983 and was appointed Governor of Nagaland, Manipur and Tripura in June 1984. During the 1971 war, his division, the 8 Mountain Division, captured the Sylhet area and liberated north-east Bangladesh. Rao was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1942. General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao, PVSM (16 July 1923 – 30 January 2016) was a former chief of the Indian Army and a former governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland, Manipur and Tripura. Vizianagaram, Madras Presidency, British India 24th Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee
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