President Confers Gallantry and Distinguished Service Awards

President Confers Gallantry and Distinguished Service Awards

The President and Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces Shri Pranab Mukherjee conferred fourteen Shaurya Chakras to Armed Forces Personnel for displaying conspicuous gallantry, indomitable courage and extreme devotion to duty at a solemn ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here today. Out of fourteen, three Shaurya Chakras were awarded posthumously. The atmosphere in Darbar Hall of Rastrapati Bhavan were poignant and filled with emotions when the President posthumously awarded the Shaurya Chakras to the wives of these three defence personnel.
The President also conferred eighteen Param Vishisht Seva Medals, two Uttam Yudh Seva Medal, two Bar to Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and seventeen Ati Vishisht Seva Medals to senior officers of the Armed Forces for distinguished service of an exceptional order. The following is the list of awardees in order of Presentation:-

Param Vishisht Seva Medal

1.IC-27972X Lieutenant General Gyan Bhushan,

    UYSM, AVSM, VSM, Infantry/Headquarters South Western Command

2.Vice Admiral Anil Kumar Chopra, AVSM (01627-Y)

3.Air Marshal Jagdish Chandra, AVSM, VSM (14613)

      Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics)

4.Air Marshal Rajinder Singh, AVSM, VM (13980) Flying (Pilot)

5.Air Marshal Simhakutty Varthaman, AVSM, VM, VSM (13606)

     Flying (Pilot) (Retired)

6.Air Marshal Satish Pal Singh, AVSM, VM (13770) Flying (Pilot) (Retired)

7.IC-27782L Lieutenant General Panemangalore Gopalakrishna Kamath, AVSM, YSM, SM, Infantry / Army War College

8.IC-27979F Lieutenant General Jatinder Singh Bajwa, UYSM, SM, Infantry

9.IC-27990A Lieutenant General Munish Sibal, AVSM and Bar, Infantry

10.IC-30353P Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM and Bar, Infantry

11.MR-03471Y Lieutenant General Gautam Ravindranath, SM, VSM, Army Medical Corps

12.IC-30118W Lieutenant General Anjan Mukherjee,

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, Regiment of Artillery

13.IC-30085W Lieutenant General Jag Darshan Singh Rawat, SM, Intelligence Corps / Military Intelligence Training School and Depot

14.IC-27290M Lieutenant General Ramesh Halgali, AVSM, SM, Infantry (Retired)

15.IC-27701A Lieutenant General Dalbir Singh Sidhu, AVSM,VSM, Armoured Corps (Retired)

16.IC-27767W Lieutenant General Pradeep Bhalla, AVSM, VSM, Army Ordnance Corps (Retired)

17.IC-30068W Lieutenant General Surendra Pratap Tanwar, AVSM, Regiment of Artillery (Retired)

18.Vice Admiral Kannan Bhagavatheswaran, AVSM, VSM (50431-R) (Retired)

Uttam Yuddh Seva Medal

19.IC-30351K Lieutenant General Dalbir Singh, AVSM,VSM, Infantry/Headquarters Eastern Command

20.IC-36269L Lieutenant General Anil Singh Nandal, AVSM, SM, Infantry/Headquarters 16th Corps

Bar To Ati Vishisht Seva Medal

21.IC-31324M Lieutenant General Kotheneth Surendranath, AVSM, SM, VSM, Armoured Corps / Headquarters 33rd Corps

22.Vice Admiral Muttathil Puthanveetil Muralidharan, AVSM, NM (01587-F) (Retired)

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal

23.DR-10295P Lieutenant General Swaminathan Murali Mohan, Army Dental Corps

24.IC-31007L Lieutenant General Anil Malik, Armoured Corps / Armoured Corps Centre And School.

25.IC-31917Y Lieutenant General Surinder Mohan Mehta, SM, VSM and Bar, Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers/ Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers, Secunderabad

26.IC-27969X Lieutenant General Rajesh Pant, VSM, Corps of Signals / Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow

27.MR-03516N Lieutenant General Mandeep Singh, VSM, Army Medical Corps (Retired)

28.MR-03691H Major General Rajan Chaudhry, VSM, Army Medical Corps

29.IC-35206W Major General Konsam Himalay Singh,YSM, Infantry / Headquarters 25th Infantry Division

30.IC-37204K Major General Binoy Poonnen, VSM, Infantry / Headquarters 57th Mountain Division

31.IC-35471M Major General Bipin Rawat, YSM, SM, VSM, Infantry / Headquarters 19th Infantry Division

32.IC-35487X Major General Narinder Pal Singh Hira, SM, Infantry / Headquarters 10th Infantry Division

33.IC-34086W Major General Bal Krishan Sharma, SM and Bar Infantry (Retired)

34.Rear Admiral Rakesh Pandit, NM (01700-N)

35.Rear Admiral Kishore Onkar Thakare, NM (40767-A)

36.Rear Admiral Sudhakar Thurumalla, NM (60301-Y)

37.Air Vice Marshal Narendra Bahadur Singh, VSM (15635), Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics)

38.Air Commodore Sandeep Singh, VM (17312) Flying (Pilot)

39.Air Commodore Suresh Singh, VSM (16941) Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics)

Shaurya Chakra

40.IC-59849M Major TN Unnikrishnan, 15th Battalion The Dogra Regiment

41.IC-67215L Major Saurabh Suyal, SM and Bar, Armoured Corps / 22nd Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles

42.Squadron Leader Ajit Bhaskar Vasane (27697) Flying (Pilot)

43.Shri Nagendra Singh, Assistant Commandant, Office of The Commandant-207, Cobra At GC, CRPF, Durgapur-14(WB)

44.Shri Vinoj P. Joseph, Assistant Commandant, Office of The Commandant-207, Cobra At GC, CRPF, Durgapur-14(WB)

45.Wing Commander Vatsal Kumar Singh (24223) Flying (Pilot)

46.Flight Lieutenant (Now Sqn Ldr) Gunadnya Ramesh Kharche (29037) Flying (Pilot)

47.3398295W Havildar Vir Singh, 13th Battalion The Sikh Regiment

48.IC-66537Y Major Vijayendra Singh Yadav, Brigade of The Guards/ 21st Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles

49.IC-61591H Major Chandra Shekhar Singh, 666 Army Aviation Squadron (Reconnaissance and Observation) (Posthumous)

50.C-72070P Captain Dinesh Kumar, 9th Battalion The Madras Regiment

51.IC-65672A Major Manish Punj, Rajput Regiment / 10th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles

52.2486356P Naik Rajeshver Singh, 16th Battalion The Punjab Regiment (Posthumous)

53.2486445N Naik Anil Kumar, 16th Battalion The Punjab Regiment (Posthumous)