General Vijay Kumar Singh (Gen. V. K. Singh) is the 24th Indian General of the Indian Army and currently the Chief of Army Staff.  He was born on 10 May 1951 at Khadki Military Hospital, Pune. His Family comes from Bapora village in Bhiwani district in Haryana. His father was a Colonel in the Indian Army and grandfather a senior Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO)
He graduated from the Defence Services Staff College as a honours graduate of the United States Army Infantry School, a graduate of the Rangers Course at Fort Benning and the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.In the US for the Rangers course, he came first in combat operations.
After joining army in 1970, he had fought Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 and was also the Part of Operation Pawan. which was aimed to take control of Jaffna from the Tamil Tigers in late 1987 to enforce the disarmament of the LTTE as a part of the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord.
He became Chief of Army Staff on 31 March 2010, and was the first commando to achieve that position.
Age Controversy
As a fourteen year old boy, Singh wrote his year of birth as 1950 in his application form for admission to the National Defence Academy (NDA) in 1965. His father provided the NDA with documentation (a certificate from 14 Rajput Regiment’s commanding officer certifying Vijay Kumar Singh’s date of birth as 10 May 1951 as per service records of the father) on 3 August 1965 correcting the mistake much before VK Singh took the NDA’s written exam in June 1966. The Indian Military Academy (IMA) where he received training also corrected his date of birth as 10 May 1951 when he submitted documentary evidence. However, the Military Secretary branch recorded his date of birth as 10 May 1950 on the basis of his application form to NDA.  The records in Adjutant General (AG) Branch of the Indian Army, which is the official record keeper of the army, show Singh’s date of birth as 10 May 1951