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Modi made the key announcement in his address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day.
The Prime Minister said the CDS would ensure synergy among the three services and provide effective leadership to them. “Our government has decided to have a Chief of Defence Staff- CDS,” Modi said. A high-level committee set up to examine the gaps in the country’s security system in the wake of the Kargil War in 1999 had called for appointment of a Chief of Defence Staff as a single-point military adviser to the Defence Minister.