GUWAHATI: A military station in Kibithu, a tiny town barely 15km from the China border in Arunachal Pradesh’s Anjaw district, and a 22km road leading to it have been renamed General Bipin Rawat Military Garrison and Gen Bipin Rawat Marg after India’s first Chief of Defence Staff who died in a helicopter crash last year.
General Rawat had commanded his 5/11 Gorkha Rifles battalion as a colonel from 1999 to 2000 in Kibithu, the easternmost town in Arunachal.