Lt Gen Karanbir Singh Brar

The General Officer with a career spanning almost four decades has rich experience of serving in all terrain and operational areas with tenures in J&K, Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Rajasthan, Kutch and has served twice in UN Missions in Congo & South Sudan as Sector Commander commanding international troops, both most high risk mission.

He has led a delegation on UN Peacekeeping at Dhaka. As GOC of a Division, he led a Battle Group to a SCO Exercise in Russia on Air Land Battle in 2019. He was also part of Emergency Procurement Team to Russia post Uri attacks. And was also part of Trial Team of first  T-72 to Ladakh sector in 1987.

He was part of the team for inception of Army Design Bureau (ADB). As Director General Armoured Corps, he was instrumental in initiating numerous projects and its fruition to include Light Tanks, Swarm Drones, etc. As GOC DBA he had created an Eco System for Def Capability Building getting Industry, Academia, startups etc to collaborate and is mentoring / guiding Niche Tech Projects in IIT Madras, IISc Bangalore and other startups. Many Disaster Relief operations have been executed under his charter – Wayanad Landslides, Cyclone MICHAUNG, Cyclone FENGAL, etc

The General Officer has has excelled in all courses of instruction to incl DSSC, Higher Air Command Course & NDC & two Master of Philosophies to his credit and has done three computer courses and is now pursuing PhD.

Currently, he is Distinguished Strategic Advisor to IITM PRAVARTAK. He has initiated and is mentoring three AI projects for Army in Legal, Medical and Mandarin Translation.

He has been awarded with highest Presidential Award for Distinguished Service PVSM (Param Vishisht Sewa Medal) and AVSM (Ati Vishisht Sewa Medal), also Chief of Army Staff Commendation Twice and GOC-in-C Eastern Command Commendation Twice.