Madan Mohan Lakhera

Lieutenant General Madan Mohan Lakhera, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (born 1937) is the current Governor of the Indian state of Mizoram. He has held that position since July 2006. Previously, he was the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Pondicherry from 2004 to 2006. He has also served as the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, while holding additional charge.

Education and early life

Madan Mohan Lakhera was born in 1937 to a Brahmin family, in Village Jakhand, Tehri Garhwal, located in what is today the Indian state of Uttarakhand. He was educated at the prestigious Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, and later, the National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla. He was commissioned as an officer into the Indian Army from the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, on 8 June 1958. He also attended the elite Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, Tamil Nadu.

Army career

Early service

During his service in the Indian Army, MM Lakhera participated in the 1961 liberation of Goa, and the Indo Pakistan wars of 1965 & 1971 in the Jammu & Kashmir Sector. He later attended the Defence Services Staff College at Wellington (South India) and the Long Gunnery Staff Course at the School of Artillery, Devlali. Also attended Senior Defence Management Course at College of Defence Management of Secundrabad. He served as an Instructor at the School of Artillery from...
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