Bipin Rawat

Bipin Rawat

General Bipin Rawat was born in Pauri, Uttarakhand in a Hindu Garhwali Rajput family. His father Laxman Singh Rawat rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. His mother was the daughter of Kishan Singh Parmar, ex-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Uttarkashi.

About Bipin Rawat in brief

Summary Bipin RawatGeneral Bipin Rawat was born in Pauri, Uttarakhand in a Hindu Garhwali Rajput family. His father Laxman Singh Rawat rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. His mother was the daughter of Kishan Singh Parmar, the ex-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Uttarkashi. Rawat attended Cambrian Hall School in Dehradun and the St. Edward’s School, Shimla. He is also a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and the Higher Command Course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In 2011, he was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy by Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut for his research on military-media strategic studies.

He has much experience in high-altitude warfare and spent ten years conducting Counter-insurgency operations. As a Colonel, he commanded his battalion, the 5th battalion 11 Gorkha Rifles, in the Eastern sector along the Line of Actual Control at Kibithu. He then commanded a multinational Brigade in a Chapter VII mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where he was twice awarded the Force Commander’s Commendation. After being promoted to the Army Commander grade, Rawat assumed the post of General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command on 1 January 2016.