On Monday, Indian Army’s former Military Secretary Lieutenant General Anil Bhatt (Retired) was appointed as the Chairperson of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kota, Rajasthan, by President Droupadi Murmu.
Indian Army’s former Military Secretary Lieutenant General Anil Bhatt’s (Retired) tenure will effect from August 25 for a period of three years.
Bhatt was the Director General of Military Operations during the Doklam crisis with China and also commanded the Srinagar-based Chinar Corps. He is presently the Director General of the Indian Space Association, promoting space-related industry and technologies in the country. Earlier, Recalling the 2017 India-China border standoff, former Director General of Military Operations Lt Gen Anil Bhatt (Retd) said the Doklam issue was a challenging time for the country and was resolved due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative of walking up to Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 meeting and asking him to resolve it on diplomatically.
