Sunith Francis Rodrigues

General
Sunith Francis Rodrigues
PVSM, VSM
26th Governor of Punjab and 13th Administrator of Chandigarh
In office
16 November 2004 – 22 January 2010
Appointed byPresident of India (then, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam)
Chief MinisterParkash Singh Badal
Preceded byAkhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (Additional Charge)
Om Prakash Verma
Succeeded byShivraj Patil
32nd Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee
In office
1 August 1991 – 30 June 1993
PresidentR. Venkataraman
Shankar Dayal Sharma
Prime MinisterP. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded bySurinder Mehra
Succeeded byLaxminarayan Ramdas
15th Chief of the Army Staff (India)
In office
1 July 1990 – 30 June 1993
PresidentR. Venkataraman
Shankar Dayal Sharma
Prime MinisterV. P. Singh
Chandra Shekhar
P. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded byVishwa Nath Sharma
Succeeded byBipin Chandra Joshi
Personal details
Born(1933-09-19)19 September 1933
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British Raj
(now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
Died4 March 2022(2022-03-04) (aged 88)
Panaji, Goa, India
Military service
Allegiance India
Branch/service Indian Army
Years of service1952–1993
Rank General
Unit Regiment of Artillery
Commands Western Army
Central Army
Director General Military Training (DGMT)
Battles/warsSino-Indian War of 1962
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Service numberIC-6119[1]
Awards
Later work(s)

General Sunith Francis Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM (19 September 1933 – 4 March 2022) was an Indian army officer who was Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army[2][3] from 1990 to 1993 and Governor of Punjab from 2004 to 2010.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference commission was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Ice Station Taurus | Outlook India Magazine".
  3. ^ "The Colonel Who Got Us Siachen". 8 July 2010.