Lieutenant General Anil Singh Chauhan has been made the new CDS of India. India’s new CDS Anil Singh Chauhan retired from the Indian Army on 31 May 2021 last year. Prior to this, he served in many positions in the Indian Army for about 40 years.
India’s first CDS General Bipin Rawat died in a plane crash on 8 December 2021, after which the post of CDS was vacant. But now India has got its new CDS. Thakur Anil Singh Chauhan will replace Bipin Rawat and serve as the new CDS of India.
Anil Singh Chauhan will be the second CDS of India.
Anil Singh Chauhan Personal Life
Retired Lieutenant General of Indian Army and new CDS Anil Singh Chauhan was born on 18 May 1961 in Gawana village of Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand state. Anil Singh Chauhan comes from a Rajput family of Garhwal.
The Indian Defense Ministry has appointed 61-year-old Anil Singh Chauhan as India’s new CDS as well as Secretary, Department of Military Affairs. Along with the charge of CDS, Anil Chauhan will also serve as Secretary, Military Affairs.
CDS Anil Singh Chauhan Career
Following the promotion of Manoj Mukund Naravane to Vice Chief of Army Staff, Chauhan was appointed GOC-in-C of Eastern Command in September 2019. Chauhan served as military advisor to the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS), headed by Ajit Doval, after retiring from active military service.
Chauhan was recalled from retirement by the Narendra Modi-led government on 28 September 2022 as India’s second Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), following a June 2022 notification allowing military retirees under the age of 62 to hold the position. Assuming charge two days later, he became the first three-star retiree to be appointed to the post, traditionally held by a four-star officer. He succeeded General Bipin Rawat, the inaugural holder of the post, who had died nine months earlier in a helicopter crash in December 2021.
Military Career
In 1981, General Chauhan was commissioned into the 11 Gorkha Rifles. He has held several command, staff and instructional appointments during his career and has experience in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu & Kashmir and Northeast India. He also served as a United Nations mission to Angola.
In July 2019, he was appointed to succeed Manoj Mukund Naravane as GOC-in-C, Eastern Command when the latter becomes Vice Chief of the Army Staff (VCOAS) on 31 August.
Chauhan superannuated on 31 May 2021. He was commissioned into the 11 Gorkha Rifles in 1981. As a commander, staff member and instructor, he has experience in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu & Kashmir and Northeast India. During his time in Angola, he served as a member of a United Nations mission.
In July 2019, he was appointed to succeed Manoj Mukund Naravane as GOC-in-C, Eastern Command when the latter becomes Vice Chief of the Army Staff (VCOAS) on 31 August.
Chauhan superannuated on 31 May 2021.
Honours and decorations
Over the span of his military career of four decades, Chauhan received numerous military decorations, several notable among them being: the Param Vishisht Seva Medal, the Uttam Yudh Seva Medal, the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, the Sena Medal and the Vishisht Seva Medal.
CDS Anil Chauhan Education
Having completed his schooling at Fort William Kendriya Vidyalaya in Kolkata, Chauhan attended the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, and later the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun, graduating in 1981.
Anil Chauhan Caste
CDS Anil Chauhan was born on 18 May 1961 in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal district to a Rajput family.
CDS Anil Chauhan Wife and Family
Chauhan is married to Anupama, an artist. The couple have a daughter, Pragya. An art enthusiast, Chauhan is a keen admirer of Tibetan art, a fact which he attributed to his wife.
As a general officer and later than CDS, Chauhan’s life bore several similarities to Rawat’s; both men were commissioned in the same regiment, the 11th Gorkha Rifles and also hailed from the same ancestral region, the Pauri Garhwal district. As fellow officers, Rawat was said to have held Chauhan with high esteem; in 2022, when a military garrison along the Line of Actual Control was renamed after him, Chauhan was among the dignitaries present at the renaming ceremony. Chauhan is also said to be close with Ajit Doval, India’s fifth national security advisor, with whom he had closely worked with during his retirement.
CDS Anil Chauhan Father and Mother
His father, Surendra Singh Chauhan, is a retired Indian Army personnel.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 5′ 7″
Weight (approx.): 65 kg
Hair Colour: Salt and Pepper
Eye Colour: Dark Brown
Bio/Wiki
| Full Name | Anil Singh Chauhan CDS |
| Anil Singh Chauhan Date of Birth | 18 May 1961 |
| CDS Anil Singh Chauhan Age | 61 |
| Birthplace | Uttarakhand, India |
| Father’s Name | N/A |
| Mother’s Name | – |
| Famous As | New CDS Of India |
| Education | Gradution |
| Nationality | Indian |
| CDS Anil Singh Chauhan Wife | Anupama Chauhan |
| Anil Singh Chauhan Caste | Hindu (Rajput) |
| Anupama Chauhan daughter | Pragya Chauhan |
| CDS Anil Singh Chauhan Salary | 5 Lakh/m |