Kathmandu, 9 August: Nepal Army’s CoAS General Purna Chandra Thapa is going to complete his tenure as CoAS on 9 September next month. According to the Nepal Army tradition, Gen. Thapa is staying on leave for one month beginning from today before his retirement. The government has assigned Gen. Prabhuram Sharma as the acting CoAS to head the Nepal Army in absence of CoAS Thapa. According to the NA tradition, after completion of one month as the acting CoAS, Sharma will take charge of the new CoAS. People’s News Monitoring Service