CDS Bipin Rawat India's I Chief of the Defense Staff

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CDS Bipin Rawat 

I Chief of Defense Staff

This is a small tribute to Late CDS Bipin Rawat Sir from me.

May his soul rest in eternal peace.

We will always remember you sir.

Pest in Peace🙏


  • General Bipin Laxman Singh Rawat ”PVSM UYSM AVSM YSM SM VSM ADC”ADC”(16 March 1958 8 December 2021) was an Indian military officer who was a four star general of the Indian Army. He served as the first Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) of the Indian Armed Forces from January 2020 until his death in a helicopter crash in December 2021. Prior to taking over as the CDS, he served as 57th and last Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee as well as 26th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army.
Early Life and Education

  • Bipin Laxman Singh Rawat was born in Pauri town of Pauri Garhwal district, modern day Uttarakhand state, on 16 March 1958. His family had been serving in the Indian Army for multiple generations. His father Laxman Singh Rawat was from Sainj village of the Pauri Garhwal district and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. His mother was from the Uttarkashi district and was the daughter of Kishan Singh Parmar, the ex Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Uttarkashi. 
  • Rawat attended Cambrian Hall School in Dehradun and St. Edward's School in Shimla. He then joined the National Defense Academy, Khadakwasla and the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, from where he graduated first in the order of merit and was awarded the 'Sword of Honor’. 
  • Rawat was also a graduate of the Defense Services Staff College ( Wellington and the Higher Command Course at the United States Army Command and General Staff College (USACGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1997.From his tenure at the DSSC, he obtained an MPhil degree in Defense Studies as well as diplomas in Management and Computer Studies from the University of Madras. In 2011, he was awarded a honorary doctorate by CCS University, Meerut for his research on military media strategic studies.
Military Career
  1. Early Career
    • Rawat was commissioned into the 5th battalion, the 11 Gorkha Rifles (5/11 GR) on 16 December 1978, the same unit as his father. He has much experience in high altitude warfare and spent ten years conducting counter insurgency operations.
    • He commanded a company in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir as a major. As a colonel, he commanded his battalion, the 5th battalion, the 11 Gorkha Rifles, in the eastern sector along the Line of Actual Control at Kibithu . Promoted to the rank of brigadier, he commanded 5 Sector of Rashtriya Rifles in Sopore . He then commanded a multinational brigade in a Chapter VII mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), where he was twice awarded the Force Commander’s Commendation.
         2. General Officer
      • After promotion to major general, Rawat took over as the General Officer Commanding 19th Infantry Division (Uri). As a lieutenant general, he commanded III Corps, headquartered in Dimapur, before taking over the Southern Army in Pune.
      • He also held staff assignments which included an instructional tenure at the Indian Military Academy (Dehradun), General Staff Officer Grade 2 at the Military Operations Directorate, logistics staff officer of a Re organised Army Plains Infantry Division (RAPID) in central India, Colonel Military Secretary and Deputy Military Secretary in the Military Secretary’s Branch and Senior Instructor in the Junior Command Wing. He also served as the Major General General Staff (MGGS) of the Eastern Command.
      • After being promoted to the Army Commander grade, Rawat assumed the post of General Officer Commanding in Chief (GOC in C) Southern Command on 1 January 2016. After a short stint, he assumed the post of Vice Chief of Army Staff on 1 September 2016.
      • On 17 December 2016, the Government of India appointed him as the 27th Chief of the Army Staff, superseding two more senior Lieutenant Generals, Praveen Bakshi and P. M. Hariz . He took office of Chief of Army Staff as the 27th COAS on 31 December 2016, after retirement of General Dalbir Singh Suhag.
      • He was the third officer from the Gorkha Brigade to become the Chief of the Army Staff, after Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and General Dalbir Singh Suhag. On his visit to the United States in 2019, General Rawat was inducted to the United States Army Command and General Staff College International Hall of Fame. He was also the honorary General of Nepalese Army. It has been a tradition between the Indian and Nepali armies to confer the honorary rank of General to each other's chiefs to signify their close and special military ties.
         3. UN Mission in Congo
        • Rawat commanded MONUSCO (a Multinational Brigade in a Chapter VII mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Within two weeks of deployment in the DRC, the Brigade faced a major offensive in the east which threatened not only the regional capital of North Kivu, Goma, but stability across the country.
        • The situation demanded a rapid response and North Kivu Brigade was reinforced, where it was responsible for over 7,000 men and women, representing nearly half of the total MONUSCO force. Whilst simultaneously engaged in offensive kinetic operations against the CNDP and other armed groups, Rawat (then Brigadier) carried out tactical support to the Congolese Army (FARDC), sensitization programmes with the local population and detailed coordination to ensure that all were informed about the situation and worked together in prosecuting operations whilst trying to protect the vulnerable population.
        • This hectic period of operational tempo lasted a full four months. Goma never fell, the East stabilized, and the main armed group was motivated to the negotiating table and has since been integrated into the FARDC.
        • He was also tasked to present the Revised Charter of Peace Enforcement to the Special Representatives of the Secretary General and Force Commanders of all the UN missions in a special conference at Wilton Park, London, on 16 May 2009.
           4. 2015 Myanmar Strikes
        • In June 2015, eighteen Indian soldiers were killed in an ambush by militants belonging to the United Liberation Front of Western Southeast Asia (UNLFW) in Manipur. The Indian Army responded with cross border strikes in which units of the 21st battalion of the Parachute Regiment struck an NSCN K base in Myanmar. 21 Para was under the operational control of the Dimapur based III Corps, which was then commanded by Rawat.
          5. Comments on China
        • On 15 September 2021 while speaking at an event in the capacity of the CDS at the India International Centre in New Delhi, General Rawat touched upon the theory of clash of civilizations with regards to the western civilization and China's growing relations with countries like Iran and Turkey. The next day, on 16 September 2021, India's Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar conveyed to his Chinese counterpart that India does not subscribe to any clash of civilizations theory.
          6. Bilateral Visit as the Chief of Army Staff

        Personal Life
          • In 1985, Rawat married Madhulika Raje Singh. A descendant of an erstwhile princely family, she was the daughter of Kunwar Mrigendra Singh, sometime Riyasatdar of the pargana of Sohagpur Riyasat in Shahdol district and an Indian National Congress MLA from the district in 1967 and 1972. She was educated at Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya in Gwalior and graduated in psychology at Delhi University. The couple had two daughters, Kritika and Tarini.
          • Madhulika Rawat was the president of the Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA) during Bipin Rawat's tenure as Chief of Army Staff. She became the president of the Defence Wives Welfare Association (DWWA), upon the creation of the post and the appointment of General Bipin Rawat as the first CDS. She worked to make the wives of defence personnel financially independent. She was also involved with NGOs and welfare associations such as Veer Naris that assists widows of military personnel, differently abled children and cancer patients.
          Death 
            • On 8 December 2021, Rawat, his wife and members of his staff were amongst 10 passengers and 4 crew members aboard an Indian Air Force Mil Mi 17 helicopter flight en route from the Sulur Airforce base to the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington, where Rawat was to deliver a lecture. At around 12:10 p.m. local time, the aircraft crashed near a residential colony of private tea estate employees on the outskirts of the hamlet of Nanjappachatiram Bandishola panchayat, in the Katteri Nanchappanchathram area of Coonoor taluk, Nilgiris district. The crash site was 10 km from the flight's intended destination. Rawat's death and those of his wife and 11 others was later confirmed by the Indian Air Force. Rawat's liaison officer, Group Captain Varun Singh was the sole survivor. Rawat was 63 at the time of his death.
            • Bipin Rawat and his wife were cremated according to Hindu rituals with full military honours at Brar Square, New Delhi on 10 December 2021. They were accorded a 17 gun salute. The cremation was carried out by his 2 daughters.
            Honors and Decorations 



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            Sources and Links 
            • Wikipedia

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