PTI

Udhagamandalam (TN), December 8

The officers from Defence, district administration and villagers on Thursday paid tributes to India’s first Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat and 13 others from armed forces who misplaced their lives within the navy helicopter crash at Nanjappanchatram close to Coonoor in Nilgiris district on this present day final 12 months.

Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, Commandant Lieutenant General Virendra Vats together with senior officers arrived on the spot and laid wreath and flowers on the web site the place the chopper crashed.

Nilgiris District Collector SP Amrith and SP Ashish Rawat additionally paid tributes to the departed souls.

Later, chatting with reporters, Vats stated he together with different officers had come to pay homage to Rawat and 13 others who died within the crash.

“We are also here to thank the villagers who without caring for their lives managed to bring out the bodies from the accident site in a remote area,” he stated.

When requested in regards to the plans for a memorial on the web site, Vats stated that it required cooperation from all of the stakeholders, administration, house owners of the land and villagers.

Meanwhile, a lot of villagers arrived at Nanjappanchatram and paid tributes to the nice troopers and demanded for erecting a full-size statue of Rawat.

Some of the villagers stated they wished the Katteri park close to the accident web site be named after the primary CDS and in addition arrange a sanctuary of migratory birds in his identify.

They had submitted a memorandum to the district administration wherein they requested to assemble a soccer floor on the web site within the identify of the troopers.