General Rajendra Chhetri ( ne, राजेन्द्र क्षत्री; IAST:rājendra kṣatrī) born 15 November 1960) is a Nepali military officer and former

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of the

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, He was conferred

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General of the

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Career

Chhetri joined the Nepal Army as a lieutenant on October 24, 1978, and was commissioned into the Rajdal Battalion from Kharipati. He completed war-college from the United States. He was promoted to major general in November 2011, and to lieutenant general in February 2015. He assumed office of the Chief of Army Staff on 10 September 2015, following the retirement of General

Gaurav Shumsher JB Rana Gaurav Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana ( ne, गौरव शम्शेर जङ्गबहादुर राणा) known as Gaurav Shumsher JB Rana was Chief of Army Staff of the Nepalese Army between September 2012 and August 2015. He is a des ...

Family

He was born in 1960 as the second son of Colonel Gopal Bahadur Khatri Kshatri and Pramila Kshatri in Dudhekuna village, Chok Chisapani VDC of

Tanahun District Tanahun District ( ne, तनहुँ जिल्ला , or ), a part of Gandaki Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Damauli as its district headquarters, covers an area of and has a population (201 ...

. He is married to Rita Chhetri.

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