V S Pathania new regional commander of North West Coast Guard Region

Ahmedabad

Inspector General VS Pathania today took over as the fifth Regional commander of Coast Guard Region North West, strategically the most important region of the force, headquartered at Gandhinagar in Gujarat, Defence spokesperson Wing Commander Abhishek Matiman said.

An alumnus of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and the National Defence College, New Delhi, Mr. Pathania, also , a tatrakhsak medal (TM) winner, has held various important operational, command and administrative appointments including the Chief of Staff at the North West region, Chief Staff Operations of the Western Region, Command of ICG Ships Sarang and Vigraha, Air Station at Chennai and Principal Director of the Human Resource Directorate at New Delhi, Mr. Matiman said.

Mr Pathania joined the service on January 17, 1986 as a helicopter pilot and has 2200 hrs of incident free flying to his credit, the spokesperson added.

– DeshGujarat