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28/09/22 21:41 PM IST

Lt Gen Anil Chauhan (Retd) Is India's New CDS

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  • The Narendra Modi government  appointed Lt Gen Anil Chauhan (retd) as India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), nearly 10 months after the country’s first CDS, Gen Bipin Rawat, was killed in a helicopter crash.
Lt. Gen Chauhan 
  • The decorated Army officer will also be the Department of Military Affairs (DMA) Secretary.
  • Lt Gen Chauhan, 61, took over as the military adviser in the National Security Council Secretariat from Lt Gen VG Khandare (retd) post his retirement from the Army as the Eastern Army Commander.
  • He had a  distinguished career of over 40 years, during which he held several command, staff and instrumental appointments, and had extensive experience in counterinsurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast.
MILITARY CAREER
  • An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Lt. Gen. Chauhan was commissioned into the 11 Gorkha Rifles of the Army in 1981.
  • The senior Army officer had commanded an Infantry Division in the critical Baramulla sector in the Northern Command and later a corps in the Northeast.
  • He had also served as the Director General of Military Operations and been part of the United Nations mission to Angola.
  • He was appointed the Eastern Army Commander in September 2019, from where he retired from the service on May 31, 2021.
  • As a Brigadier, he was the first serving officer who handled the Directorate of Indian Army Veterans (DIAV)— which is responsible for looking after Army veterans’ welfare.
About CDS 
  • CDS acts as the permanent Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee which will also have three service chiefs as members.
  • His core function will be to foster greater operational synergy between the three service branches of the Indian military and keep inter-service frictions to a minimum.
  • He also head the newly created Department of Military Affairs (DMA) in the Ministry of Defence.
  • The CDS will be the single-point military adviser to the Defence Minister on matters involving all three services and the service chiefs will be obliged to confine their counsel to issues pertaining to their respective services.
  • As the head of DMA, CDS is vested with the authority in prioritising inter-service procurement decisions as Permanent Chairman-Chiefs of Staff Committee.
  • The CDS is also vested with the authority to provide directives to the three chiefs.
Source- Indian Express 

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