Army chief Gen Rawat visits alma mater St Edward’s School, Shimla

Tribune News Service
Shimla, May 13

It was a journey down memory lane as Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat visited St Edward’s School here during his visit to Himachal Pradesh on Monday.

General Rawat, a pass-out of the 1972-73 batch, visited three classrooms and the physics laboratory and had a brief interaction with the students.

He replied to the queries of students and motivated them to join the Army.

“I am very impressed by the turnout and drill of NCC cadets and wish you all the success,” he wrote in the visitor’s book.

Gen Rawat, accompanied by wife Madhulika Rawat, spent an hour and a half on the school premises and talked about his involvement in Naxal operations in Assam.

Replying to a question that was it the family pressure or his passion for the army that inspired him to join the armed forces, the Army chief said there were few avenues back in the 1970s and he was always motivated by the men in uniform.