Even if General Biping Rawat stood up to fight the aggressive Chinese in the Donglang Plateau and Ladakh, he would be remembered for launching the anti-corruption war within the military organization, because he used to say that the Indian army was for respect. Not money.
As India’s first Chief of Staff of Defense, he pushed the Indian Army to request the CBI to investigate suspected corruption in the substandard married accommodation project (MAP) constructed by the Military Engineering Services Department in the Salaria officer enclaves in Meerut and Delhi. MES). The total approval costs for the first and second phases of MAP are 6,033 crore and 13,682 crore. He reprimanded the MES senior officials for inferior construction and told them that the Salaria Enclave resembled the bombed Syria, not New Delhi, and that the officers and the chin’s accommodation used substandard materials. As the Chief of Staff of the Army, he initiated a major reform of the procurement of military canteens by setting the upper limit of car purchases to 1.2 million rupees, which made the retired generals very angry. When he found that senior officers saved precious consumption and purchased luxury cars such as Mercedes and SUVs and top brand single malt whiskeys through the canteen route, he deleted these items from the canteen list, saying that ordinary officers or Chin could not afford them. The existing salary of things. The veterans hated him for wearing a hat and only allowed foreign liquor produced in India to be sold in the cafeteria, but General Rawat told them that if they had so much money, they should buy Mercedes or blue-label whiskey from the open market. Rather than dent the Indian treasury. For the chin, he made sure that substandard products would not enter the military canteen through the grease route.
Another area in which he struggles with his peers is the abuse of disability pensions, especially by senior officials in the three departments. General Rawat asked the then Minister of Defense Nirmala Sitharaman (Nirmala Sitharaman) to understand the situation and discovered that senior military officers deliberately lowered their medical category before retirement, not only to obtain disability benefits for themselves and their children, but also Get a tax-free pension. He found that in many cases, generals or air marshals or admirals received more pensions than his salary through the use of disability pensions. Although he fully supports the truly disabled who lost their limbs in war or rebellion, he is totally opposed to the abuse of disability pensions. Perhaps it is for this reason that, despite being seriously injured during a LoC operation in Kashmir, General Rawat installed a steel rod in his ankle, but never applied for a disability pension.
Today, General Rawat has become history, but the reforms he initiated within the army to make them more responsible cannot be stopped, because this is the need of the times.
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Even if General Biping Rawat stood up to fight the aggressive Chinese in the Donglang Plateau and Ladakh, he would be remembered for launching the anti-corruption war within the military organization, because he used to say that the Indian army was for respect. Not money.
As India’s first Chief of Staff of Defense, he pushed the Indian Army to request the CBI to investigate suspected corruption in the substandard married accommodation project (MAP) constructed by the Military Engineering Services Department in the Salaria officer enclaves in Meerut and Delhi. MES). The total approval costs for the first and second phases of MAP are 6,033 crore and 13,682 crore. He reprimanded the MES senior officials for inferior construction and told them that the Salaria Enclave resembled the bombed Syria, not New Delhi, and that the officers and the chin’s accommodation used substandard materials. As the Chief of Staff of the Army, he initiated a major reform of the procurement of military canteens by setting the upper limit of car purchases to 1.2 million rupees, which made the retired generals very angry. When he found that senior officers saved precious consumption and purchased luxury cars such as Mercedes and SUVs and top brand single malt whiskeys through the canteen route, he deleted these items from the canteen list, saying that ordinary officers or Chin could not afford them. The existing salary of things. The veterans hated him for wearing a hat and only allowed foreign liquor produced in India to be sold in the cafeteria, but General Rawat told them that if they had so much money, they should buy Mercedes or blue-label whiskey from the open market. Rather than dent the Indian treasury. For the chin, he made sure that substandard products would not enter the military canteen through the grease route.
Another area in which he struggles with his peers is the abuse of disability pensions, especially by senior officials in the three departments. General Rawat asked the then Minister of Defense Nirmala Sitharaman (Nirmala Sitharaman) to understand the situation and discovered that senior military officers deliberately lowered their medical category before retirement, not only to obtain disability benefits for themselves and their children, but also Get a tax-free pension. He found that in many cases, generals or air marshals or admirals received more pensions than his salary through the use of disability pensions. Although he fully supports the truly disabled who lost their limbs in war or rebellion, he is totally opposed to the abuse of disability pensions. Perhaps it is for this reason that, despite being seriously injured during a LoC operation in Kashmir, General Rawat installed a steel rod in his ankle, but never applied for a disability pension.
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