Biography Of General Bipin Rawat

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INDIAN ARMY

Bipin Rawat was born on 16 March 1958 in Pauri Uttarakhand. His family had been serving in the Indian Army for multiple generations, and his father was Lieutenant General Laxman Singh Rawat.
Rawat attended Cambrian Hall School, Dehradun, St Edward’s School Shimla, National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla and the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, where he was awarded the ‘Sword of Honour’.

He is also a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and the Higher Command Course at the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
From his tenure at the DSSC, he has a MPhil in Defence Studies as well as diplomas in Management and Computer Studies from Madras University.
In 2011, he was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy by Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut for his research on military-media strategic studies.

Rawat was commissioned into the 5th battalion of 11 Gorkha Rifles on 16 December 1978, the same unit as his father.
He commanded a company in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, and was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-C) Southern Command (Pune).
During his career span of 37 years, he has been awarded for gallantry and distinguished service with the UYSM in 2013, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM.

Rawat assumed the post of GOC-in-C Southern Command on 1 January 2016 and assumed the post of Vice Chief of Army Staff on 1 September 2016.
On 17 December 2016, the Government of India designated him as the 27th Chief of the Army Staff, He is the fourth officer from the Gorkha Brigade to become the Chief of the Army Staff
He is also the honorary General of Nepalese Army as It has been a tradition between the Indian and Nepali armies to confer the honorary top rank on each other’s chiefs to signify their close and special military ties