An army base along the China border in Arunachal Pradesh and a key road that supports military movement near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) was named after India’s first chief of defence staff, the late General Bipin Rawat on September 10.
- The Kibithu military camp, which looks out over Chinese deployments in the Rima-Tatu area across the LAC, was renamed General Bipin Rawat Military Garrison.
- It as was the 22km road stretch linking this base to Walong where outnumbered and outgunned Indian soldiers halted the Chinese war machine in the 1962 war.
- General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika, and 12 others were killed in a helicopter crash in December 2021 in Tamil Nadu.
