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India lost its first ever Chief of Defence Staff(CDS) when four-star General Bipin Rawat died in a horrific helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu Wednesday, along with his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others. Among those who died included Gen.Rawat’s defence adviser Brig.L.S.Lidder approved for promotion as Major General. Gen. Bipin Rawat, his wife and other military officers flew by a military Soviet-designed Mi-17V-5 to the Defence Staff College Wellington. Gen.Bipin was to speak at the DSC and took the flight from Sulur Airbase at 11:48 a.m. local time. They were due to land in the town of Wellington at 12:15 p.m. but by 12:08 p.m., air traffic control lost communication with the aircraft. Gen.Rawat had also served as Commander of 3 Corps based at Rangapahar(Dimapur) from mid-2014 to last part of 2015. He was then posted as GOC-in-C of Southern Command by end of 2015. The Centre named Gen.Rawat as the next Chief of Army Staff after he superseded two senior Lieutenant Generals -Praveen Bakshi(GOC-in-C Eastern Command) and P.M.Hariz (GOC-in-C Army Training Command) Pune. 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. As a soldier, Gen.Bipin Rawat was instrumental in reducing the militancy in the Northeast, with one of the highlights of his career being the 2015 cross-border operation into Myanmar in which the Indian Army responded to an ambush by NSCN(K) militants. The mission was conducted from the operation command of Dimapur-based III Corps under Rawat’s supervision. He was also part of the planning for the 2016 surgical strikes, in which the Indian Army went across the Line of Control into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Having rose up to the highest position in the Indian Army,a post he served for three years, Gen.Bipin Rawat was made as the country’s first Chief of Defence Staff(CDS) which he took over on January 1, 2020. Having the right people in the right places was a boon for Gen.Rawat with regard to him being made as the Army Chief. It must be said that Gen.Rawat’s elevation to the India army’s highest position was just a means that provided him with an opportunity to prove himself as the futuristic general- a visionary who initiated far reaching reforms in the Indian military’s higher defence organization. As CDS, Rawat wore multiple hats- he was the permanent chairman of the chiefs of staff committee (COSC), headed the department of military affairs (DMA), and was the single-point military adviser to the defence minister. Gen.Rawat laid the ground for transforming the India’s military by working to create more synergy among the three services. General Rawat, was instrumental in laying down the foundation for joint theatre commands in India by reorganising the three military services into “integrated theatre commands”. These are warfighting entities, containing army, navy and air force components, that would fight jointly to focus and synergise the combat power of all three services. Gen.Rawat was often described as blunt and least bothered about ruffling feathers of the conservative veterans. It remains to be seen if another officer- present COAS Gen.M.M.Naravane- who served as IGAR(Nagaland) till step into the shoes of Gen.Rawat as CDS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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