Visitors can still see a plaque at the bottom of the flagstaff at the check post which bears the words: “Foundation stone of this flag staff was laid by Brig Mohinder Singh Chopra on 11th Oct 1947”.
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General Bipin Rawat, the first Chief of Defence Staff, has become the senior-most military leader of the country to have died in an air accident so far. The last senior military official to die in an air accident was Lt Gen Jameel Mehmood, who was the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Command of the Indian Army from October 1992 to May 1993. He and his wife,