The government has appointed vice chief of army staff Lt Gen Bipin Rawat as the new Army chief, while vice chief of air staff Air Marshal B S Dhanoa has been made the new chief of the Indian Air Force.
Both will take charge with effect from afternoon of December 31.
Rawat will replace General Dalbir Singh, while Dhanoa will take over from IAF chief Arup Raha.
Dhanoa was commissioned into the fighter stream of the IAF in June 1978. He has served in various squadrons and in the Intelligence Directorate of Air Headquarters.
Rawat was commissioned in the Fifth Battalion of the Eleven Gorkha Rifles in December 1978, from IMA, Dehradun, where he was awarded the ‘Sword of Honour’.