Rajendra Chhetri


General Rajendra Chhetri is a Nepali military officer and former Chief of Army Staff of the Nepalese Army, who assumed office on 11 August 2015, following the retirement of General Gaurav Shumsher JB Rana. He was conferred Honorary General of the Indian Army. He was commissioned into Rajdal Battalion of Nepal Army in 1978 from Kharipati.

Family

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