Lieutenant General (Retired) Gurmit Singh was sworn in on Wednesday, September 15 as the new governor of Uttarakhand. Lt Gen Singh succeeds Baby Rani Maurya, who resigned 3 years before completing her tenure.

The oath of office was administered to Singh by the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court Justice R S Chauhan at a simple function held at the Raj Bhawan. Gurmit Singh, who retired as the Deputy Chief of the Indian Army, is a highly decorated former Army officer.   The function was attended by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, his cabinet colleagues and a number of senior government officials including Chief Secretary SS Sandhu and DGP Ashok Kumar.

A highly-decorated officer, Lt Gen Singh superannuated from the Army in February 2016 after nearly 40 years of service, during which he held high-status appointments of deputy chief of Army Staff, adjutant general and corps commander of strategic XV Corps that overlooks the Line of Control in Kashmir. A degree holder from the Defence Services Staff Course and National Defence College, Lt Gen Singh has done two M. Phils from Chennai and Indore universities besides being a research scholar on India-China Boundary Issue in the Institute of Chinese Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, during his study leave from the Indian Army.

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