Gen Bipin Rawat: ‘On last visit to his Uttarakhand village, he wanted a road; it is nearly complete now’
🔴 Sainj is situated at a significant height and is around 42 km from the district headquarters and approximately 4 km from Yamkeshwar. Rawat did not spend much time at his native village — he left for Dehradun for schooling at an early age.
Gen Rawat was born in Sainj village (File Photo) Born in Sainj village, in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal district, in 1958, Gen Bipin Rawat belonged to a family of Army officers – his father Laxman Singh Rawat had retired as Lieutenant General in the Army.
Sainj is situated at a significant height and is around 42 km from the district headquarters and approximately 4 km from Yamkeshwar. While 2011 Census data shows Sainj had 21 households and a population of 93, most of the people have by now migrated from the small village.
Rawat did not spend much time at his native village — he left for Dehradun for schooling at an early age.
Bipin Rawat studied at Cambrian Hill School in Dehradun and subsequently St Edward’s School in Shimla. He then joined the National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla, Pune, and the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.
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