Congratulations to Lt General Anil Chauhan Ji (Retired) on being appointed by the Indian government to the post of India's Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). 🇮🇳🇮🇳

General Anil Chohan, retired PBSM, is part of Bishop as the next Chief of Defense staff. That's the breaking news development coming in. That's a big one. Remember after Joe Bippen Roberts, who was the first Chief of Defense Staff of the country passed away in a tragic coffee crash while traveling to Wellington the Coimbatore last year since then the post was lying vacant and now Lieutenant General Anal Stohan has been appointed as the next Chief of Defense Staff. Let's go to Ashwara Kapura, our executive editor. All right major is on the phone in fact welcome good evening and a big development there on India's defense preparedness front chief of Defense Staff appointed a successor to Colonel Bippen Robert appointed in referendum General Anil Chohan.

The action on the part of the government. You see, one committee was ordered to look into the causes of tobacco and one of the recommendations of that committee was that there should be the appointment of chief of Defense Staff to coordinate the military effort of all three services primary Air Force and Indian Army because in target war there was hardly any role for Indian Navy. So I think after the death of premature death of Jim Roberts, this appointment was lying vacant for many months. So I think the government has made the right move. Conceptually we are clear that there is a need for the appointment of a chief of different staff in the Indian Armed forces. 

Keeping that post backup vacant would have sent the wrong signals and would have delayed the military efficiency of all three services because in management it is taught that coordination is the essence of management and for coordination, you need one person and that affects a person is chief of different stuff because service chiefs represent their respective services. But to coordinate to make all three fingers into one piece you need somebody one apex authority nodal officer to coordinate this. So I think it's a good development and few people may raise questions with regard to Alexander being appointed will be in the rank wise you have.

Then three service chiefs but the question is senior in its number. Indian Commission number so seniority wise in the order of protocol he stands high and it is an appointment in which the second aspect is that if the leadership has faith in personality of some officer, in this case, I think there's no harm and the service chief should not have any problem in giving due respect to this.

In 61 left was commissioned to the eleven Gorka rifle so another contributor with General Bippen Ravar, also from the Gorka.

Chohan had commanded an infantry division in the critical Baramulla sector in the Northern Command. Later, as Lieutenant General, he also commanded a call in the Northeast and subsequently went to become the General Officer Commanding.

Still, his retirement in May of 2021 that he's retired just last year and in addition to these Command appointments, has also held important staff posts, including the.

Charge of the DGMO, which is directly General of Military Operations.Very important post. And earlier, he had also served as. The United Nations in the United Nations mission at Angola. He superannuated in the month of May 2021.