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President,
Mr KR Narayanan conferred one Maha Vir Chakra, two Kirti
Chakra, nine Vir Chakra and nine Shaurya Chakra on
those Armed Forces and civlian personnel who displayed
conspicuous gallantry, indomitable courage and an extreme
devotion to duty at a solemn ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan on
October 20 last.
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:
Sarvottam Yuddh
Seva Medal
Lt Gen Hari
Mohan Khanna (IC-12315), Infantry
Param Vishisht
Seva Medal
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)
Maha Vir Chakra
Sepoy
Imliakum (14702937), 2 Naga
Kirti Chakra
Subedar
Daljit Singh (JC-518184), Dogra, 31 Rashtriya Rifles
(Posthumous)
Maj Sushil
Aima (IC-48212), Air Defence Artillery, 17 Rashtriya Rifles
(Posthumous)
Uttam Yuddh Seva
Medal
Lt Gen Nirmal
Chander Vij (IC-13710), Infantry
Maj Gen
Krishnamurthy Nagaraj (IC-16620), Infantry
Ati Vishisht
Seva Medal
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
Vir Chakra
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
Shaurya Chakra
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:
Param Vishisht
Seva Medal
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)
Kirti Chakra
5849569 L/Nk
Ram Chander Bhatt, 2/9 Gorkha Rifles (Posthumous)
Maj Joginder
Singh Tanwar, (IC-47194), 1/3 Gorkha Rifles, 32 Rashtriya
Rifles
Bar to Ati
Vishisht Seva Medal
Maj Gen
Deepak Varma (IC-12809), Artillery
Brig Mohan
Chandra Bhandari (IC-17615), Infantry
Ati Vishisht
Seva Medal
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
Vir Chakra
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
Shaurya Chakra
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.
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