Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday inaugurated an auditorium named after India's first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and unveiled his statue at UP Sainik School in Gorakhpur.
Remembering India's first chief of defence staff late General Bipin Rawat on his third death anniversary, Indian Army Vice Chief Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani on Sunday termed him as "a scholar soldier and a military reformer with an exceptional ability to envisage the future."
On the 66th birth anniversary of the country's first Chief of Defence Staff late Gen Bipin Rawat, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said his legacy should be used for building national will and inspiring citizens and soldiers in the country.
Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt on Saturday inaugurated a statue of India's first Chief of Defence Staff Late General Bipin Rawat and an 80 feet high tricolour at Talla Banas village of Uttarakhand's Pauri district.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday unveiled a statue of the country's first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat at a school in Dehradun, describing him as a person who brought significant reform in the history of the Indian Army.
In a major boost to its firepower, the Defence Ministry has approved the procurement of a regiment of 'Pralay' ballistic missiles for the Indian Army for deployment along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and Line of Control (LoC), that is, borders with China and Pakistan respectively.
In a giant leap towards creating a rocket force to tackle the threat from the northern borders, Indian defence forces are set to place orders for two more units of the Pralay ballistic missiles at the cost of over Rs 7,500 crore.
Remembering late Gen Bipin Rawat on his 65th birth anniversary, Chief of Defence Staff Anil Chauhan on Tuesday said Rawat's biggest contribution was to change the narrative of counter-insurgency and counter-terror operations in Jammu and Kashmir.
Army Chief General Manoj Pandey on Saturday remembered India's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) late Gen Bipin Rawat and said that he had had boundless energy.
Union Minister Ajay Bhatt paid homage to India's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) late Gen Bipin Rawat at the United Service Institution of India (USI) in Delhi.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Thursday said that the first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat was "resolute" and clear India would not step back during the 2017 Doklam crisis.