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MYSTERIOUS: Military station near china border named after general bipin rawat | Mind Blowing Facts

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.

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