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An alumnus of the National Defence Academy (NDA) , Khadakwasla and Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun, Lt Gen Anil Chauhan was commissioned into the 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army in 1981. In the rank of Maj General, the officer had commanded an Infantry Division in the critical Baramulla sector in the Northern Command. Later as Lt General, he commanded a corps in the Northeast and subsequently went to become the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Command from September 2019 and held the charge until his retirement from the service in May 2021. In addition to these command appointments, the officer also tenanted important staff appointments including the charge of Director General of Military Operations. Earlier, the officer had also served as a United Nations mission to Angola. Lt Gen Chauhan continued to contribute to national security and strategic matters even after his retirement as he has been associated with the National Security Council Secretariat. In a career spanning over nearly 40 years, Lt Gen Anil Chauhan (retd) held several command, staff and instrumental appointments and had extensive experience in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India. He retired from the service in May last year when he was serving as the eastern Army Commander. Awards and laurels For his distinguished and illustrious service in the Army, Lt General Anil Chauhan (retired) was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal, Uttam Yudh Seva ...

Three months after the sudden demise of the country's first chief of defence staff General Bipin Rawat, the Union government is yet to announce the next CDS. Army Chief General M.M. Naravane is the senior-most among the three service chiefs, while both the Navy and Indian Air Force have recently got their respective chiefs. Chief of the Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshal V.R. Choudhary and Navy Chief Admiral R. Hari Kumar assumed office on September 30 and November 30 respectively. This makes Gen Naravane the front-runner to the CDS post as he is retiring by the end of April 2022. Besides, Gen Naravane, former air force chief Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria is also seen as the possible contender for the post of country's topmost military man, as he made sincere efforts to iron out the differences among the services over creation of the planned threatre commands for the Indian military. Soon after taking over as CDS, Gen Rawat had started brainstorming on how to streamline coordination between the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. A few months later, he began to prepare for India’s biggest-ever military reform—reorganising the forces into theatre commands (like in the US and China) for synchronised operations in future wars. Gen Rawat planned to have five such main commands—northern, western, peninsular, air defence and maritime—by the end of 2022. On December 8 last year, Gen Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 12 others died in a helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu. ...

CDS of India: The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) in the Indian Military Services is the highest-ranking uniformed officer. The CDS of India is the military head and chairs the Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Indian Armed Forces. The announcement of India appointing its first CDS was made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi back in 2019 from the Red Fort Chief. Lt Gen Anil Chauhan (R) has been appointed as the current CDS of India in September 2022. The announcement reflected the government’s multi-sectoral urgency to initiate reform. The appointment established a single point of contact for all Defence issues and will serve to strengthen inter-service cooperation to ensure operational synergy. Let’s read about the CDS of India, their duties, functions, and challenges, and analyze their importance. Table of content • 1. CDS of India: History • 2. Current CDS of India • 3. Who is the Chief of Defence Staff? • 4. CDS of Indian Army: Uniforms and Insignia • 5. Chief of Defence Staff: Duties and Functions • 6. Chief of Armed Forces in India • 7. Advantages of Present CDS of India • 8. CDS of India: Challenges • 9. CDS of India UPSC CDS of India: History General K.V Krishna Rao first mooted the creation of the Chief of Defence Staff post in 1982. However, the Chief of Defence Staff post was created in 2019, and the discussion and debate around this post date back to 1999. After the Kargil War ended in 1999, the Kargil Review Committee, headed by K Subrahmanyam, recommended re-organiz...

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is looking at possibly splitting the post of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and Secretary, Department of Military Affairs (DMA), both of which were held by the late General Bipin Rawat, ThePrint has learnt. Sources in the defence and security establishment said that while the process to appoint a new CDS is on, following the death of India’s first CDS General Rawat, on 8 December 2021, the government is also looking at possibly finetuning the role. This is being done based on the “There is a thought process that the post of the CDS and the Secretary DMA could be split. The Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (CISC), which is equivalent to a ‘commander-in-chief’ rank, could be made the Secretary DMA and he will report to the CDS,” a source in the defence and security establishment said. Following the death of General Bipin Rawat, former Army chief, General M. M. Naravane —being the senior most — took over as Chairman, Chief of Staff Committee (COSC), and was looking after the work being done by the CDS. General Naravana retired last month, however, and IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal V. R. Chaudhari, as senior most officer is likely to take over as Chairman COSC. The work of the Secretary DMA, moved to the Defence Ministry for final approval, through the CISC. Also read: DMA will still be run by uniformed personnel In May last year, for the first time in history, uniformed personnel from the Army, Air Force and Navy were formal...

It has been 270 days since General Bipin Rawat’s death, but the post is vacant. New Delhi: Almost 270 days since the passing away of General Bipin Rawat, India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), the said post is still lying vacant. The post of CDS, which is the highest-ranking uniformed officer on active duty, had come into being after decades of the idea being stuck in the discussion and deliberation stage, but never making it to the execution stage, primarily due to the turf war among the three wings and arms of the military. It was only after Prime Minister Narendra Modi stepped in to remove the age-old blocks and announced his intent on 15 August 2019, that the country got its first CDS in January 2020. The tenure of Rawat could have, if the government decided to, been till March 2023. The post of CDS has in recent times become more vital in view of the much discussed “two-front” war that India is engaged in with adversaries at its western and eastern borders. China has had a system of having a CDS equivalent officer since January 2016, while Pakistan has a similar system in place since March 1976. After the untimely death of General Rawat in a helicopter crash, no immediate movement in appointing the next CDS was initiated which suggests that the mandarins at the South Block had not worked on and institutionalised a succession plan for such a vital post. Facing questions from multiple quarters, the defence ministry, in June 2022, came out with a set of new eligibil...

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An alumnus of the National Defence Academy (NDA) , Khadakwasla and Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun, Lt Gen Anil Chauhan was commissioned into the 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Indian Army in 1981. In the rank of Maj General, the officer had commanded an Infantry Division in the critical Baramulla sector in the Northern Command. Later as Lt General, he commanded a corps in the Northeast and subsequently went to become the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Command from September 2019 and held the charge until his retirement from the service in May 2021. In addition to these command appointments, the officer also tenanted important staff appointments including the charge of Director General of Military Operations. Earlier, the officer had also served as a United Nations mission to Angola. Lt Gen Chauhan continued to contribute to national security and strategic matters even after his retirement as he has been associated with the National Security Council Secretariat. In a career spanning over nearly 40 years, Lt Gen Anil Chauhan (retd) held several command, staff and instrumental appointments and had extensive experience in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India. He retired from the service in May last year when he was serving as the eastern Army Commander. Awards and laurels For his distinguished and illustrious service in the Army, Lt General Anil Chauhan (retired) was awarded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal, Uttam Yudh Seva ...

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is looking at possibly splitting the post of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and Secretary, Department of Military Affairs (DMA), both of which were held by the late General Bipin Rawat, ThePrint has learnt. Sources in the defence and security establishment said that while the process to appoint a new CDS is on, following the death of India’s first CDS General Rawat, on 8 December 2021, the government is also looking at possibly finetuning the role. This is being done based on the “There is a thought process that the post of the CDS and the Secretary DMA could be split. The Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (CISC), which is equivalent to a ‘commander-in-chief’ rank, could be made the Secretary DMA and he will report to the CDS,” a source in the defence and security establishment said. Following the death of General Bipin Rawat, former Army chief, General M. M. Naravane —being the senior most — took over as Chairman, Chief of Staff Committee (COSC), and was looking after the work being done by the CDS. General Naravana retired last month, however, and IAF chief, Air Chief Marshal V. R. Chaudhari, as senior most officer is likely to take over as Chairman COSC. The work of the Secretary DMA, moved to the Defence Ministry for final approval, through the CISC. Also read: DMA will still be run by uniformed personnel In May last year, for the first time in history, uniformed personnel from the Army, Air Force and Navy were formal...

CDS of India: The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) in the Indian Military Services is the highest-ranking uniformed officer. The CDS of India is the military head and chairs the Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Indian Armed Forces. The announcement of India appointing its first CDS was made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi back in 2019 from the Red Fort Chief. Lt Gen Anil Chauhan (R) has been appointed as the current CDS of India in September 2022. The announcement reflected the government’s multi-sectoral urgency to initiate reform. The appointment established a single point of contact for all Defence issues and will serve to strengthen inter-service cooperation to ensure operational synergy. Let’s read about the CDS of India, their duties, functions, and challenges, and analyze their importance. Table of content • 1. CDS of India: History • 2. Current CDS of India • 3. Who is the Chief of Defence Staff? • 4. CDS of Indian Army: Uniforms and Insignia • 5. Chief of Defence Staff: Duties and Functions • 6. Chief of Armed Forces in India • 7. Advantages of Present CDS of India • 8. CDS of India: Challenges • 9. CDS of India UPSC CDS of India: History General K.V Krishna Rao first mooted the creation of the Chief of Defence Staff post in 1982. However, the Chief of Defence Staff post was created in 2019, and the discussion and debate around this post date back to 1999. After the Kargil War ended in 1999, the Kargil Review Committee, headed by K Subrahmanyam, recommended re-organiz...

Three months after the sudden demise of the country's first chief of defence staff General Bipin Rawat, the Union government is yet to announce the next CDS. Army Chief General M.M. Naravane is the senior-most among the three service chiefs, while both the Navy and Indian Air Force have recently got their respective chiefs. Chief of the Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshal V.R. Choudhary and Navy Chief Admiral R. Hari Kumar assumed office on September 30 and November 30 respectively. This makes Gen Naravane the front-runner to the CDS post as he is retiring by the end of April 2022. Besides, Gen Naravane, former air force chief Air Chief Marshal R.K.S. Bhadauria is also seen as the possible contender for the post of country's topmost military man, as he made sincere efforts to iron out the differences among the services over creation of the planned threatre commands for the Indian military. Soon after taking over as CDS, Gen Rawat had started brainstorming on how to streamline coordination between the Army, the Navy and the Air Force. A few months later, he began to prepare for India’s biggest-ever military reform—reorganising the forces into theatre commands (like in the US and China) for synchronised operations in future wars. Gen Rawat planned to have five such main commands—northern, western, peninsular, air defence and maritime—by the end of 2022. On December 8 last year, Gen Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 12 others died in a helicopter crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu. ...