Soon after assuming office, General NS Raja Subramani was accorded a ceremonial Guard of Honour at the South Block lawns in New Delhi, marking the beginning of his tenure as the nation’s highest-ranking military officer.
The ''Parivartan Chintan'' is aimed at generating new and fresh ideas, initiatives and reforms to propel jointness and integration efforts.
Inaugurating the DRDO Directors' Conclave, an annual event of DRDO, General Chauhan stressed the need to perform, reform, transform, inform and conform to meet the emerging challenges.
Gen Chauhan is India's second CDS. He succeeds Gen Bipin Rawat, who was killed in a helicopter crash in December 2021.
As CDS, Lt Gen Chauhan becomes the military head and permanent Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee of the Indian armed forces.
In a major decision, the government today made changes in rules to broaden the scope of eligible officers for the post of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).
