{"id":7300,"date":"2019-03-15T06:40:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T06:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2019-11-30T04:01:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T04:01:09","slug":"major-general-channira-bansi-ponnappa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/major-general-channira-bansi-ponnappa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt General Channira Bansi Ponnappa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lt General <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/channira-chennira-okka\/\">Channira<\/a> Bansi Ponnappa an <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/army-personals\/\">Army officer<\/a> and UN peacekeeper from <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/kodagu-district\/\">Kodagu<\/a> is known for his role as<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7301 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Bansi-Ponnappa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"165\"> commander of the United Nations&#8217; MONUSCO forces in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the M23 rebellion. He was awarded the ATI VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL in 2019<\/p>\n<h2>Family<\/h2>\n<h3>Wife<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/channira-chennira-okka\/\">Channira<\/a>(Keethiyanda) Nitya Medappa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Acheivements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ponnappa is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy.<\/li>\n<li>He was previously Commander of&nbsp;Shakti Vijay Brigade&nbsp;in&nbsp;Jammu and Kashmir&nbsp;in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>As a representative of the&nbsp;Indian army&nbsp;he had flagged off an educational cum motivational tour under&nbsp;Operation Sadhbhavana&nbsp;in Tangdar area of north Kashmir&#8217;s&nbsp;Kupwara&nbsp;district.<\/li>\n<li>In 2012 he was sent to&nbsp;Goma&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Democratic Republic of the Congo&nbsp;as part of&nbsp;India&#8217;s UN Peacekeeping force.<\/li>\n<li>He was made&nbsp;MONUSCO&#8217;s&nbsp;North Kivu&nbsp;Brigade (NKB) Commander and addressed as &#8216;Brigadier General&#8217;. During the&nbsp;M23 rebellion&nbsp;in North Kivu the UN Peacekeepers secured the airport and maintained status quo while the security responsibilities of Goma was shared between the police deployment, the former police of MONUSCO and the MONUSCO military.<\/li>\n<li>Ponnappa served under Brazilian Lt. General&nbsp;Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz&nbsp;who succeeded India&#8217;s&nbsp;Chander Prakash&nbsp;as Force Commander of MONUSCO in March 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Under his command,&nbsp;North Kivu&nbsp;Brigade were blamed for not stopping the&nbsp;M23&nbsp;rebel group from marching into Goma. In fact, M23 passed right beside&nbsp;Munigi&nbsp;Hill which was occupied by NKB.<\/li>\n<li>In 2013, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/army-personals\/\">Indian Army<\/a>&nbsp;planned and implemented a water treatment plant at Otobora, a Congolese village in Walikale, D R Congo, with MONUSCO&#8217;s approval. The facility was inaugurated by C B Ponnappa on 4 October 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Awards<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He was awarded the ATI VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL in 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt General Channira Bansi Ponnappa an Army officer and UN peacekeeper from Kodagu is known for his role as commander of the United Nations&#8217; MONUSCO forces in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/kodavaclan.com\/kodaguheritage\/major-general-channira-bansi-ponnappa\/\" class=\"blink\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eminent-people-kodava"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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