Madan Mohan Lakhera Biography 
Madan Mohan Lakhera is an Indian administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry during 7 July 2004 – 18 July 2006, followed by Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands during 12 February 2006 – 29 December 2006 and Governor of Mizoram during 25 July 2006 – 2 September 2011. He is a retired military office who held the Lieutenant rank in his military service.
Lt Gen (Retired) Madan Mohan Lakhera, PVSM, AVSM, VSM hails from Jakhand, Uttarakhand. He was born on 21 October 1937 to a Brahmin family. He studied from Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, and National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla, after which he was commissioned as an officer into the Indian Army from the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. He joined military service in the year 1958 at the age of 21.
As a military officer, he has been associated with 1961 liberation of Goa, and the Indo Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971 in the Jammu and Kashmir Sector. He later attended Defence Services Staff College, Wellington. Lakhera rose to command the 4th Battation of the Kumaon Regiment in Jammu & Kashmir during 1975-1978. He served as an instructor at the School of Artillery in the late 1960s and Army War College in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Lakhera assumed command of a brigade at Kanpur, and was a part of operation 'Blue Star' in Punjab in 1984 and he also provided service during 1984 riots in Kanpur. He has been awarded the Chief of Army Staff's Commendation Card twice for his excellence in service. He received Vishisht Seva Medal from the President of India on 26 January 1990.
Published: January 14, 2019
Updated: January 14, 2019
