Lt Gen Shokin Chauhan, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM (Retd)

Lt Gen Shokin Chauhan, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM (Retd), is a former Director-General of Assam Rifles and Chairman of the Ceasefire Monitoring Group, with over four decades of distinguished military service. Commissioned into the 11 Gorkha Rifles in 1979, he commanded key formations including 1 Corps, 8 Mountain Division, and 70 Mountain Brigade, with extensive operational experience in Kashmir and the Northeast. He pioneered the Indian Army’s public information outreach and served as Defence Attaché to Nepal. A scholar-soldier, he holds a PhD on Indo-Nepal relations, authored Bridging Borders, and contributes widely to strategic discourse, military diplomacy, and academic institutions. The views expressed are his own

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