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                                General bipin rawat




          Soldier, viSionary







                                 and patriot







               the loss of india’s first Chief of defense Staff is a big jolt to india’s defence

          establishment. as tributes pour in from across the world, government tries to find

                                    out what really happened with the general’s flight.





        OuR BuREAu                                                                                            mas, in Management and Computer
                                                                                                              Studies respectively. General Bipin
        New Delhi/Lucknow
                                                                                                              Rawat completed  his research on
           ndia’s first Chief of Defence Staff                                                                military media strategic studies and
           and longest-serving four-star offi-                                                                was awarded Doctorate of Philoso-
        icer General Bipin Rawat, known                                                                       phy (Ph.D) from Chaudhary Charan
        as the transformer in the Indian mil-                                                                 Singh University, Meerut.
        itary’s higher defence organisation,
        passed away on Wednesday after a                                                                      General  bipin  rawat and his
        helicopter carrying him crashed in
        Tamil Nadu.                                                                                           wife Madhulika  rawat were
            The dead include the spouse of                                                                    laid side by side on the same
        the CDS, his wife Madhulika Rawat,
        his Defence Advisor Brig Lakhbind-                                                                    pyre for cremation at the brar
        er  Singh  Lidder,  Staff  Officer  Lt                                                                Square crematorium in  delhi
        Col Harjinder Singh and nine other
        Armed Forces personnel including                                                                      Cantonment on Friday.  their
        the Air Force helicopter crew.                                                                        daughters Kritika and tarini lit
            CDS Rawat was instrumental in
        creating  foundation  of  India’s  joint                                                              the pyre. CdS rawat was cre-
        theatre commands, a major reform                                                                      mated with full military hon-
        in Indian military establishment
        since  Independence  and  also  for   2020.                         commander, he commanded a the-    ours including a 17-gun salute
        changing the way the Army had been    He was commissioned to the    atre of operations along the Western  by the military.
        functioning for many decades. Rawat   Fifth Battalion, the Eleventh Gorkha   Front.
        was on a visit to the Defence Services   Rifles of the Indian Army in Decem-  CDS Rawat is a graduate of the   Defence  Minister  Rajnath
        Staff  College  in Wellington  to  ad-  ber 1978, from Indian Military Acad-  Defence Services Staff College, Wel-  Singh, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
        dress the faculty and student officers   emy (IMA), Dehradun, where he   lington, the Higher Command and   Kejriwal, Uttarakhand Chief Minis-
        of the Staff Course when his chopper   was awarded the Sword of Honour.  National Defence College courses   ter Pushkar Singh Dhami, Defence
        crashed near Coonor in Nilgiris dis-  With vast experience  in opera-  and, has attended the Command and   Research and Development Organ-
        trict. He was accompanied by his wife   tions across a wide spectrum of con-  General Staff Course at Fort Leav-  isation chief Dr G Satheesh Reddy,
        and 12 other security personnel.  flict and terrain profiles, CDS Rawat   enworth, USA.               defence attaches of various coun-
            A veteran of counterinsurgen-
                                                                                Whilst serving with the United
        cy warfare, CDS Rawat served in   commanded an infantry battalion,   Nations, he was twice awarded the   tries, Ambassador of France in In-
                                          along the Line of Actual Control in
                                                                                                              dia Emmanuel Lenain and British
        the  most  difficult  terrains  including   the Eastern Sector, a Rashtriya Ri-  Force Commander’s Commenda-  High Commissioner Alex Ellis, were
        northern and eastern commands.    fles  Sector,  an  Infantry  Division  in   tion. The officer has penned numer-  among the dignitaries who were pres-
        CDS Rawat was commissioned into   the Kashmir Valley and a Corps in   ous articles on National Security and   ent at the crematorium to pay their
        the Indian Army in December 1978.   the North East.                 Leadership, which were published in   last respect.
        He previously served as Chief of the   He  also  commanded  a  Multi-  various journals and publications.  People from all walks  of life
        Army Staff from January 2017 to   national Brigade, in a Chapter VII    CDS Rawat was awarded M Phil   joined  the funeral procession as  it
        December 2019. He took charge of   mission in the Democratic Republic   in Defence Studies from Madras
        Chief of Defence Staff on January
                                          of Congo (MONUC). As an Army      University. He also holds two Diplo-     Continued at next page... >>


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