Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Konsam Himalay Singh, is a former Lieutenant General and the first from North East to reach that rank in the Indian Army. Currently, he is the Chairman of Indian Institute of Information Technology Agartala and a member of Consultative Committee of Manipur Government on Naga Peace Talks. A PhD in National Security Studies, he is also a Visiting Faculty in Manipur University. He was the Manipur Public Service Commission for two years. As a mountaineer, he participated in Kanchenjunga expedition in 1987.