Bipin Chandra Joshi | |
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16th Chief of the Army Staff | |
In office 1 July 1990 – 30 June 1993 | |
President | Ramaswamy Venkataraman Shankar Dayal Sharma |
Prime Minister | V. P. Singh Chandra Shekhar P. V. Narasimha Rao |
Preceded by | Sunith Francis Rodrigues |
Succeeded by | Shankar Roy Chowdhary |
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Born | 5 December 1935[1] Pithoragarh, United Provinces, British India (now Uttarakhand, India) |
Died | 19 November 1994 New Delhi, India | (aged 58)
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Years of service | 1954–1994 |
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General Bipin Chandra Joshi, PVSM, AVSM, ADC (5 December 1935 – 19 November 1994) was the 16th Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of the Indian Army. He is the only Chief of the Indian Army to die in office, and until the 2021 death of General Bipin Rawat in a helicopter crash, the only full general and serving Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee to have died in office.
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