The President also conferred one Sarvottam Yuddh Seva Medal, 12 Param Vishisht Seva Medals, two Uttam Yuddh Seva Medals, and 18 Ati Vishisht Seva Medals on the day to senior officers of the Armed Forces for distinguished service. The following is the list of awardees:

Lt Gen Hari Mohan Khanna (IC-12315), Infantry

Vice Admiral Ravindra Nath Ganesh (00523-N)

Lt Gen Malik Ram Sharma (IC-12508), Infantry

Lt Gen Jitendra Swarup Bhatnagar (IC-13021), Army Service Corps

Lt Gen Shailendra Kumar Bhatnagar (IC-12405), Army Ordnance Corps

Lt Gen Malvinder Singh Shergill (IC-13152), Armoured Corps

Lt Gen Prakash Gokarn (IC-12855), Signals

Lt Gen Harijinder Singh Bagga (IC-13969), Infantry

Lt Gen Amarjit Singh (IC-12827), Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Lt Gen Ramanand Jayaswal (MR-01515), Army Medical Corps (Retired)

Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar (6748), Flying (Pilot)

Air Marshal Pran Nath Bajaj (6392), Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical) (Retired)

Air Marshal Sahab Prasad Verma (6466), Medical (Retired)

Sepoy Imliakum (14702937), 2 Naga

Subedar Daljit Singh (JC-518184), Dogra, 31 Rashtriya Rifles (Posthumous)

Maj Sushil Aima (IC-48212), Air Defence Artillery, 17 Rashtriya Rifles (Posthumous)

Lt Gen Nirmal Chander Vij (IC-13710), Infantry

Maj Gen Krishnamurthy Nagaraj (IC-16620), Infantry

Lt Gen Ravindra Mohan Chadha (IC-13529), Engineers

Maj Gen Mathew Mammen (IC-15792), Engineers

Maj Gen Joginder Jaswant Singh (1C-16078), Infantry

Maj Gen Parinder Paul Singh Bindra (IC-18964) lnfantry

Maj Gen Bhupender Singh Thakur (IC-16234) , Armoured Corps

Maj Gen Varinder Singh Yadav (IC-16241), Engineers

Maj Gen Tej Swaroop Pathak (IC-16844), Infantry

Rear Admiral Rajeev Paralikar (40210-K)

Rear Admiral Ajit Tewari (00904-K)

Rear Admiral Ravindra Mohan Kshetrapal (40292-Y)

Air Vice Marshal Krishna Chandra Varma (7083), Meteorological

Air Vice Marshal Suresh Chandra Vohra (6713), Logistics

Air Vice Marshal Manmohan Sehgal (8390) Flying (Pilot) (Retired)

Brig Vijai Pal Singh (1C-17131), Military Farms

Brig Jagtar Singh (IC-26292), Infantry

Brig Dinesh Prasad (MR-O2349), Army Medical Corps

Air Cmde Kanwar Dalinderjit Singh (12403) Flying (Pilot)

Col Sikdar Jyotirmoy (MR-02967) Army Medical Corps

Capt Rupesh Pradhan (IC-57301), 2 Engineer Regiment

Maj Prabhu Nath Prasad (IC-39610), Army Aviation, 32 R&O Flight

Naik Brij Mohan Singh (5045510), 9 Parachute (SF) (Posthumous)

Naik Gyanendra Kumar Rai (9418968), 1/11 Gorkha Rifles

Subedar Nirmal Singh (JC-208096), 8 Sikh (Posthumous)

Subedar Tashi Chhepal (JC-226210), Indus Wing, Ladakh Scout

Lt Col K P R Hari (lC-40798), 1 Bihar

Capt Shashi Bhushan Ghildiyal (IC-56633), Artillery, 315 Field Regiment

Capt Deepankar Kapoor Singh Sharawat (1C-57502), 2 Naga

Mr Ram Awadh Tiwari, Bihar

Mr Basavaraj, Karnataka (Posthumous)

Mr Yogeshwar Prasad Sah, Bihar

Subedar Om Prakash (JC-155660), 16 Rajputana Rifles (Posthumous)

Sepoy Surjit Singh (2488120), 20 Punjab (Posthumous)

Lt Col Sanjeev Bhatty (IC-40640), 4 Grenadiers, 12 Rashtriya Rifles

Maj Viney Chaudhary (IC-50228), 13 Punjab (Posthumous)

Naik Pardeep Singh (9088192), 8 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infanty

Maj Manish Mishra (IC-51280), 5 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry

On November 3 last, the President Mr KR Narayanan conferred 2 Kirti Chakra, 9 Vir Chakra and 10 Shaurya Chakra on those Armed Forces personnel who displayed conspicuous gallantry, indomitable courage and an extreme devotion to duty at an investiture ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The President also conferred 12 Param Vishisht Seva Medals, 2 Bar to Ati Vishisht Seva Medals and 24 Ati Vishisht Seva Medals to senior officers of the Armed Forces for their distinguished service.

The following is the list of awardees:

Lt Gen Yuvraj Kumar Mehta (IC-12803), Engineers

Lt Gen Surinder Bir Singh Kochar (IC-13247), Infantry

Lt Gen Dharambir Singh (IC-12552), Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Lt Gen Sudhir Kumar (IC-12850), Signals

Lt Gen Satish Chandra Chopra (IC-13963), Infantry

Lt Gen Hind Ravi Singh Mann (IC 12813), Infantry

Lt Gen Satish Chandra Verma (MR-O2482), Army Medical Corps (Retd)

Vice Admiral Pramod Chander Bhasin, (50155-N)

Surg Vice Admiral Jagdish Chandra Sharma, (75524-W) (Retired)

Air Marshal Thrunillayi Ramaswamy Janakiraman, (7058) Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical)

Air Marshal Satish Govind Inamdar, (7189) Flying (Pilot)

Air Marshal Sayed Hussain Naqvi (7193) Flying (Pilot)

5849569 L/Nk Ram Chander Bhatt, 2/9 Gorkha Rifles (Posthumous)

Maj Joginder Singh Tanwar, (IC-47194), 1/3 Gorkha Rifles, 32 Rashtriya Rifles

Maj Gen Deepak Varma (IC-12809), Artillery

Brig Mohan Chandra Bhandari (IC-17615), Infantry

Lt Gen Shankar Prasad Datta (MR-01815), Army Medical Corps (Retired)

Air Marshal Proteep Kumar Ghosh (7106), Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics)

Maj Gen Anil Sawhny (IC-13888), Engineers

Maj Gen Sudesh Kumar Kaushal (IC-15947), Artillery

Maj Gen Sarvjit Singh Chahal (IC-16240), Infantry

Maj Gen Charanjit Singh Brar (IC-16261), Armoured Corps

Maj Gen Bhopinder Singh (IC16272), Infantry

Maj Gen Bittianda Karriappa Bopanna (IC-22834), Infantry

Maj Gen Rajinder Bir Singh (IC-16618), Infantry

Maj Gen Vijay Joshi (MR-02033), Army Medical Corps

Surg Rear Admiral (now Surg Vice Admiral) Hara Prasad Mukherjee, (75091-K)

Rear Adml Arun Saxena, (50180-W)

Rear Admiral Krishnan Narayanan, (50245-T)

Rear Admiral Sampath Pillai (00615-Y) (Retired)

Air Vice Marshal Arunachalam Saibaba (9996), Administration

Brig (Now Maj Gen) Avinash Walter Ranbhise (IC-17265), Infantry

Brig Arun Kumar Chopra (IC-17674), Infantry

Brig Kuldip Singh Jamwal (IC-19001), Artillery

Brig Gananjit Singh (IC-26878), Armoured Corps

Brig Rama Krushna Sahoo (IC-17930), Engineers

Air Commodore (now AVM) Puzhankara Ambalavattam Hari Mohan, (9723) Flying (Pilot)

Air Cmde Prakashchandra Khandubhai Desai, (10078) Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical)

Air Cmde Bhushan Nilkanth Gokhale, (11630), Flying (Pilot)

GO-0459M Chief Engineer (Civil) Harbhajan Singh, BRO

4268525 Nk Shatrughan Singh, 1 Bihar

Capt Baleyada Muthanna Cariappa (IC-54977), 5 Para

9924742 Sep Tsewang Morup, Ladakh Scouts, Karakoram Wing

9085536 Hav Satish Chander, 12 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry

9415981 Hav Bhim Bahadur Dewan, 1/11 Gorkha Rifles (Posthumous)

Maj Gautam Shasikumar Khot (IC-47707), Army Aviation, 23 Recce & Obsn Flight

Lt Praveen Kumar (IC-57455), 14 Sikh Regiment

13618411 Nk Kaushal Yadav, 9 Parachute (SF) (Posthumous)

Capt Kul Bhushan Upreti (IC-57684), Army Service Corps, 19 Mahar

5452662 Rifleman Ram Bahadur Thapa, 5/5 Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Forces) (Posthumous)

Assistant Commandant Kartar Singh (AR-180), 19 Assam Rifles

193499 Rifleman Jayanta Kumar Rabha, 19 Assam Rifles

Maj Sangram Singh (SS-36034), 10 Para (Special Force)

Lt Deepak Singh Pathania (04004-Z), Indian Navy

5245388 L/Hav Dev Bahadur Thapa, 1/3 Gorkha Rifles (Posthumous)

3986604 L/Nk Maluk Chand, 16 Dogra (Posthumous)

Lt Col Natraj Vijay Raghavan (IC-40300), 15 Kumaon (Posthumous)

2600934 Sep J Veerabhadrudu, 28 Madras

JC-224169 Sub Mohan Singh Rawat, Guards, 21 Rashtriya Rifles

The Vice President, Mr Krishan Kant, Home Minister, Mr LK Advani, Defence Minister, Mr George Fernandes, Cabinet Secretary, three Service Chiefs, Defence Secretary and senior officials of the Armed Forces and Defence Ministry were also present on the occasion.