General Bipin Rawat Appointed India's First Chief Of Defence Staff | Read

Army Chief General Bipin Rawat was named the country's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) today in a move announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Independence Day. General Rawat will take over as the Chief of Defence Staff tomorrow, the same day he retires as the Army Chief. As the CDS, he would be in direct contact with the Prime Minister on security issues and the chiefs of the Army, Navy and the Air Force would report to him. He would head the Department of Military Affairs and paid a salary equivalent to a service chief.