Education and Early Life
Madan Mohan Lakhera was born in 1937 to a Brahmin family, in Village Jakhand, Tehri Garhwal, located in what is today the Indian state of Uttarakhand. He was educated at the prestigious Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, and later, the National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla. He was commissioned as an officer into the Indian Army from the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, on 8 June 1958. He also attended the elite Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, Tamil Nadu.
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