Introduction CDS General Anil Chauhan
General Anil Chauhan is a four-star general and former retiree of the Indian Army, who is the current and 2nd Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Indian Armed Forces since 30 September 2022.
He was born on 18 May 1961. Anil Chauhan hailed from the Pauri Garhwal distsrict, Uttarakhand and belongs to Rajput family. After completing his schooling at Kendriya Vidyalaya at Fort William, Kolkata, Chauhan attended the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla and later, the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun, subsequently graduating in1981.
As a general officer and later as CDS, Chauhan's life bore several similarities to late CDS Bipin Rawat; both men were commissioned in the same regiment, the 11th Gorkha Rifles and also hailed from the same ancestral region, the Pauri Garhwal district, both belong to Rajput family.
