Lt Gen Mehta, at presently posted as Major General, general staff (MGGS) at Western Command headquarters at Chandimandir, has been promoted to the rank of Lt Gen in situ, which means he would continue to be posted as MGGS.
Gen Mehta had completed his studies from Presentation Convent School Srinagar and did his graduation (B Sc.) in 1977 from government degree college Udhampur.
Commissioned into an elite Armoured Regt - SKINNERS HORSE in September 1978, Gen Mehta has an outstanding service track record, having passed out as First in the Order of Merit (Gold Medalist) from Officers Training Academy Chennai.
He has also worked on the subject of 'Resolution of Kashmir Issue' and intends to publish the same as a book to evolve the way for the ultimate resolution of the same.
Lt Gen Mehta's father Colonel Amarjeet Singh Mehta (Retd) an Artillery Officer was also the first commissioned Sikh Officer from Kashmir valley. His father was selected as a guide to Indian Army in 1948 during the Tribal attack on Srinagar who escorted 4-KUMAON battalion in the operations led by Param Vir Chakra awardee, Major Som Nath Sharma, who had achieved martyrdom close to Mehta's village Shogapora.
In his service career spanning over 36 years, Gen Mehta has served in various sectors pan India. He has commanded an Armoured Regt, T-90 Armoured Brigade and an Armoured Division. He has also served in the counter insurgency operations in J&K as a Colonel General Staff. The officer has held many important and prestigious staff appointments like Aide-De-Camp to GOC Corps, Brigade Major of an Armoured Brigade, GSO 1 Strike Corps, Commander of Recruit Training Group Armoured Corps Centre & School, Colonel General Staff of RAPID Division and Colonel General Staff of Counter Insurgency Force, Deputy Director General Military Operations (AHQ), Instructor at the School of Armoured Warfare and Directing Staff at the Higher Command Wing of Army War College.
Lt Gen P S Mehta has become the first Sikh army officer from Kashmir Valley who has become a three star general of the rank of Lt General.
Earlier, General Bikram Singh and General N C Vij, both from Jammu region, has served as army chief but nobody from Kashmir valley had risen to such high rank.
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