Lieutenant General Sanjay Kulkarni, PVSM, AVSM, SC, SM, VSM (Retd) was commissioned into 4 KUMAON in 1977. On 13 April 1984, his team occupied Bilafond La by Vertical Envelopment, a daring operation never executed at such heights earlier. He commanded a Rashtriya Rifles Battalion in the thick of Insurgency and later commanded an Infantry Battalion, an Infantry Brigade and a Division along the Line of Actual Control in Arunachal Pradesh where he was decorated with the Governor's Gold Medal. An alumnus of National Institute of Defence Studies, Japan and of National Defence College, New Delhi, he retired as Director General Infantry. Post retirement, he served as a Member of the Shekatkar Committee for right sizing of Armed Forces. He resides in Ram Vihar, NOIDA.
