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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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