A military station on the banks of Lohit Valley along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China and a key road in this mountain hamlet were on Saturday named after India s first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat.
Here are the final moments of the Mi-17 chopper carrying CDS Bipin Rawat and 13 others before it crashed near Coonoor, Tamil Nadu yesterday. 📰 Final Moments of Mi-17 Chopper Carrying CDS Bipin Rawat and 13 Others Before It Crashed (Watch Video).
Gen Rawat had come to the city in a special aircraft with his wife and they had gone to attend a Army programme at Mhow and they had left in a similar Mi17-V5 chopper, and they had come back by the same chopper the following day and had left for New Delhi in a special plane.
Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat visited forward military bases along the China border in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam after completing one year in office.
Shahdol is his in-laws’ place but Gen Rawat wanted the school there because it was a tribal belt and it would have helped in their upliftment, said brother-in-law of Gen Rawat