Sunith Francis Rodrigues

Sunith Francis Rodrigues
26th Governor of Punjab and 13th Administrator of Chandigarh
In office
16 November 2004  22 January 2010
Appointed byPresident of India
(then, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam)
Chief MinisterParkash Singh Badal
Preceded byAkhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (additional charge)
Om Prakash Verma
Succeeded byShivraj Patil
32nd Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee
In office
1 August 1991  30 June 1993
PresidentR. Venkataraman
Shankar Dayal Sharma
Prime MinisterP. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded bySurinder Mehra
Succeeded byLaxminarayan Ramdas
15th Chief of the Army Staff
In office
1 July 1990  30 June 1993
PresidentR. Venkataraman
Shankar Dayal Sharma
Prime MinisterV. P. Singh
Chandra Shekhar
P. V. Narasimha Rao
Preceded byVishwa Nath Sharma
Succeeded byBipin Chandra Joshi
Personal details
Born(1933-09-19)19 September 1933
Bombay, British India
Died4 March 2022(2022-03-04) (aged 88)
Panaji, Goa, India
Military career
Allegiance India
Branch Indian Army
Service years1952–1993
Rank General
Service numberIC-6119
Unit Regiment of Artillery
Commands Western Army
Central Army
ConflictsSino-Indian War of 1962
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965
Indo-Pakistani war of 1971
Awards
Other work
  • NSAB
  • Director of International Centre, Goa

General Sunith Francis Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM (19 September 1933 – 4 March 2022) was an Indian army officer who was Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1990 to 1993 and Governor of Punjab from 2004 to 2010.