Gallantry awards for 333 armed forces personnel
Tribune News Service and agencies

NEW DELHI, Jan 25 — President K.R. Narayanan has awarded 333 armed forces personnel, including two from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Border Roads Development Board (BRDB), for gallantry and distinguished service on the 50th Republic Day.

The list of decorations and awards include 16 Param Vishisht Seva Medal, three Kirti Chakra, two Uttam Yudh Seva Medal, 22 Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, one Vir Chakra, 29 Shaurya Chakra, 7 Yudh Seva Medal, 127 Sena Medal, 13 Nav Sena Medal, 15 Vayu Sena Medal and 98 Vishisht Seva Medal.

• Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM)
• Kirti Chakra
• Uttam Yuddh Seva Medal
• Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
• Vir Chakra
• Shaurya Chakra
• Yudh Seva Medal
• Bar to Sena Medal (Gallantry)
• Sena Medal (Gallantry)
• Nao Sena Medal (Gallantry)
• Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry)
• Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty)
• Nao Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty)
• Vayu Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty)
• Bar to Vishisht Seva Medal
• Vishisht Seva Medal
• President’s Police Medal

Vice-Admiral P. Johnson Jacob, Vice-Admiral Vinod Pasricha, Vice- Admiral A. Sundara Rajan Krishnan.

Air Marshal Jagbir Singh Rai, Flying (Pilot), Air Marshal Darshan Singh Basra, Flying (Pilot), Air Marshal Vinod Kumar Verma, Flying (Pilot), Air Marshal Dinesh Chandra Dhyani, Administration, Air Marshal Velayudhan Girish Kumar, Flying (Pilot), Air Marshal Shanti Swaroop Gupta, Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical).

Kirti Chakra:
Havildar Badri Lal Lunawat, Para, Naik Gee Varghese KD 14 Assam Regiment (posthumous) and Sepoy Sanjeev Singh, 18 Dogra (posthumous).

Uttam Yuddh Seva Medal:
Major-Gen Vinayak Gopal Patankar, Artillery and Brig Jasbir Singh Lidder, Infantry.

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal:
Major-Gen Ashok Chaki, Infantry, Brig Raj Karan Singh Shivrain, Infantry, Maj-Gen Turaga Ravindranath, Army Dental Corps, Rear Admiral Barin Ghose, Rear Admiral Pravesh Jaitley, Rear Admiral Sunder Raj Sampathgopal, Rear Admiral K. Venkatraman Bharathan, Rear Admiral Kottoju Mohanrao, Rear Admiral Arun Kumar Singh and Rear Admiral Jagjit Singh Bedi.

Air Vice-Marshal Manek Bomanshaw Madon, Flying (Pilot), Air Vice-Marshal Dinesh Chandra Nigam, Aeronautical, Engineering (Electronics), Air Vice-Marshal Satinder Singh Dhillon, Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical), Air Vice- Marshal Gulshan Kumar Kwatra, M-in-D Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical), Air Vice-Marshal Jagnandon Kumar Pathania, M-in-D Administration, Air Vice-Marshal Vanacharla Anjaneyulu, Accounts, Air Cdr Harprakash Singh Sidhu, Flying (Pilot), Air Cdr Sudhir Sah, M-in-D, Flying (Pilot), Air Cdr Basudev Banerjee, Flying (Pilot), Air Cdr Gurnam Singh Chaudhary, Flying (Pilot), Air Commodore Shiv Kumar Bhan, Flying (Pilot), and Air Cdr Murli Sundaram, Flying (Pilot).

The lone recipient of Vir Chakra is Capt Suman Dasgupta, 15 Assam Regiment (posthumous).

Shaurya Chakra:
Major Inderjeet Singh, 34 Rashtriya Rifles, Major Sayed Ali Usman, 8 Assam Regiment, Major Santosh Prabhakar, 14 Maratha Light Infantry (posthumous), Major Sugato Sen, 14 Assam Regiment, Major Neeraj Sood, 6 Kumaon, Major Rohit Sharma, 8 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (posthumous), Major Sayed Sibatul Hassan Rizvi, 3 Kumaon, Capt Ganesh Singh Bhandari, Rajputana Rifles.

Capt Sukhvinder Singh Dhaliwal, 5/5 Gorkha Rifles (FF), Capt Tarun Kumar, Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous).

Asstt Commandant Ashok Kumar Rana, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (posthumous), Asst Comdt Vazir Singh, Assam Rifles.

Subedar Shiv Singh, 7 Garhwal Rifles (posthumous), Havildar Gurmit Singh, 2 Sikh, Havildar Jagmohan Singh 9 Para (SF), Naik Urba Datt, 3 Kumaon (posthumous), Naik Ram Singh, Pioneers (posthumous), Lance Naik Ram Singh, 16 Garhwal Rifles, Lance Naik Jaibir Singh, 15 Grenadiers (posthumous), Lance Naik Narinder Singh, 22 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) Sepoy S. Alphonse, 2 Madras (posthumous), Rifleman Amar Bahadur Gurung, 5/5 Gorkha Rifles, Rifleman Ashok Kumar Jena, 12 Assam Rifles, Paratrooper Lal Bahadur Tamang, 9 Para (SF), Sepoy Sukhbir Singh, General Duties (posthumous), W. Mechanical Transport driver Jabar Singh (posthumous), Pioneer Chunnu Tudu (posthumous), Nihal Chand Bishnoi, Bikaner (posthumous), Biraj Dey, Calcutta (posthumous).

Yudh Seva Medal:
Brig Ravinder Singh, Infantry, Colonel Prem Parkash Sharma, Army Aviation, Col Heman Haribhau Mahajan, 7 Maratha Light Infantry, Col Rajinder Pal Singh Dhillon, 9 Punjab, Col John De Britto, 9 Para (SF), Col Balwant Singh Negi, 15 Assam Regiment, Major Shobti Bahadur Khatri Chhetri, 15 Assam Regiment.

Bar to Sena Medal (Gallantry):
Major Hemanto Panging, SM Para, Lance Naik Faguwa Oraon, SM, 9 Para (Special Force).

Sena Medal (Gallantry):
Col Gur Kirat Singh, 8 Bihar, Col Ravindran Narayan Nair, 13 Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry, Col Prasanna Balkrishna Gole, 9 Jat, Lt- Col K.A. Mohan, VRC, 9 Para (SF), Major Jagdeep Raj Sharma, Air Defence Artillery, Major Vivek Chaudhary, 9 Assam Rifles, Major Sanjeev Sabarwal, Artillery, Major Krishna Deo Singh, 5/5 Gorkha Rifles (SF), Major Krishnasamy Lawrence, 12 Assam Rifles, Major Gulshan Khajuria, 9 Dogra, Major Shailendra Singh Soam, 29 Rashtriya Rifles, Major Vishal Bhargav, 4/8 Gorkha Rifles, Major Mohammad Mushtaq Hussain, Artillery, Major S.K. Bhattacharya, Artillery, Major Milan Mathur, 4/4 Gorkha Rifles Major Nirmal Singh Dhaliwal, 9 Para, Major Gaurav Rishi, 9 Para Major Mahendra Singh Rohil, 2 Madras, Major Vinod S., 7 Maratha Light Infantry, Major Surindr Hora, 7 Maratha Light Infantry, Major Sunil Kumar Ratan, Army Aviation, Major Bhaskar Chakarborty, 20 Rashtriya Rifles, Capt Pyara Singh, Intelligence Corps, Capt Jagannath Nisonko, Engineers, Capt Sandeep Vasudeva, 2 Sikh.

Capt Vijender Singh Dahiya, 28 Assam Rifles, Capt Vivek Dileep Kane, 14 Rashtriya Rifles, Capt Rohit Kushwaha, Artillery, Capt Kulpreet Singh Marwah, Army Aviation, Capt Rakesh Singh Jasrotia, Artillery, Capt Nawab Ali Hisamuddin Khan, Artillery, Capt Narendra Kumar, 27 Rashtriya Rifles, Capt Sanjeev Kumar Salwan, 31 Rashtriya Rifles, Lt Anupam Gautam, 17 Raj Rif, Lt Siddharth Malik, 16 Rajput, Lt Manjit Singh Bhau, 3 Kumaon, Lt Rajput Surendra Singh, Dogra Regiment Lt Vikas Singh, 1 Para (SF), Hon Lt Jang Bahadur Gurung, 2/8 Gorkha Rifles, Subedar Kiran Singh Shekhawat, 9 RR, Subedar Suresh Babu Viswambharan, 25 RR, Naib Subedar Joginer Singh, 14 Sikh Light Infantry, Naib Subedar Maruti Narayan Balkar, 7 Maratha Light Infantry, Naib Subedar Gyan Singh, 9 Para (SF). Havildar Flail Singh, 18 Dogra, Havildar Bhagwat Singh, 3 Kumaon, Havildar Charan Singh, 13 Punjab, Havildar Yogya Raj Limbu, 9 Para (SF), Havildar Virender Singh, 9 Para (SF), Havildar Nardev Singh, 9 Para (SF), Havildar Sukhdev Raj, 9 Para (SF), Havildar Anand Singh, 9 Para (SF), Lance Havildar A.T. Bopaiah, 11 Madras, Naik Samsher Singh, 7 Garhwal Rifles, Naik Dev Raj Chand, 9 Para (SF), Naik Bhupinder Singh, 9 Para (SF), Naik Umesh Kumar Kanwar, Artillery (posthumous), Naik Surendra Singh Negi, 10 Garhwal Rifles.

Lance Naik Kamal Singh, 7 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous), Lance Naik Bharat Pal, 34 Rashtriya Rifles, Lance Naik Ram Mehar, 5/1 Gorkha Rifles, Lance Naik Raj Vir, 7 Rashtriya Rifles, Lance Naik Amar Singh, 7 Rashtriya Rifles, Lance Naik Prahlad Singh Gurjar, 6 Para (posthumous), Lance Naik Darshan Singh, 13 Punjab, Lance Naik Obi Lal Rawat, 2/8 Gorkha Rifles, Lance Naik Rajendra Kumar, 28 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous).

Lance Naik Suresh Kumar, 5 Bihar, Sepoy Bharat Laxman Bagade, 30 RR, Sepoy Karamjit Singh, 14 Sikh Light Infantry (posthumous), Sepoy Sakinder Singh, 7 RR (posthumous), Sepoy Surjeet Singh, 7 RR (posthumous), Sepoy C. Mechanda Ganapathy, 25 RR, Sepoy Ravi Singh, 31 RR, Rifleman Anil Kumar, 16 Garhwal Rifles, Rifleman Durlav Singh, 16 Garhwal Rifles, Rifleman Aita Bahadur Gurung, 12 Assam Rifles, Rifleman Joginder Singh, 6 Assam Rifles, Rifleman Jagmohan Singh, 14 RR, Rifleman Vikram Singh, 18 Garhwal Rifles (posthumous), Rifleman Nandan Singh, 7 Garhwal Rifles, Rifleman Sabindra Gurung, 2/8 Gorkha Rifles (posthumous), Gunner Vadhiya Kishor Parbat, AD Artillery, (posthumous), Gunner Baldev Raj, Artillery (posthumous), Signalman Savant Ashok Malhari, 4 RR (posthumous), Trainee Tenzin Tsering, 3 Vikas (posthumous)

Nao Sena Medal (Gallantry):
Lt (SDAV) Satish Kumar Rana, Lt (SDR) Jitender Kumar, Sub Lt Sandeep Dinkar Sabnis, Nishad Kamalesh Sreeram LS CD-II, Sanjay Kumar, SEA I CD-III.

Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry):
Sq Ldr Hemant Kumar Sachdeva, Flying Pilot.

Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty):
Col Balbir Singh, 21 RR, Col Ajit Kumar Ram Tripathi, 16 Jat, Col A.K. Janardhanan Nair, 10 Assam Regiment, Col Yazdi Ilavia 7 Kumaon, Col Velayudhan Nair Prasad, 6 Para, Lt-Col Korgaokar Nilesh Jairam, Garhwal Scouts, Lt-Col Madinani Ramesh Babu, Rajput, Major Gyan Prakash Misra, 5 Dogra, Major Rajib Ghosh, Army Aviation, Major Rohit Datta 12 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous), Major Upendra Kumar Singh Raghav 11 Mahar, Major Pillai Manoj Kumar Achundan (Engineers), Major Abhijit Mitra 5 Gorkha Rifles (FF), Major Balusu Srinivas, 21 Grenadiers, Major Ajit Singh, Intelligence Corps, Major Leslie Patrick Salvador Menezes, Intelligence Corps, Major Prabhu Nath Prasad, Artillery, Major Manendra Janak Kumar, Engineers, Major Sunit Kumar Sharma, Engineers, Capt Sanjay Kumar Dhar, Artillery, Capt D. Vinod, 110 Engineers, Capt Sanjay Chawla, Engineers, Capt Nagarajan Sundar Raman, Engineers, Capt Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu (Electrical and Mechanical Engineers), Subedar Mohinder Singh, Intelligence Corps, Subedar Umed Singh, Artillery, Subedar Major Sis Ram, Jat, Subedar Chhering Angchok, Ladakh Scouts, Subedar Tarun Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Signals, Naib Subedar Virender Singh, 7 Garhwal Rifles, Naib Subedar Eamesh Singh, 15 Assam Regiment, Naib Subedar Lenkhopao, 15 Assam Regiment, Havildar Satish Kumar, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Havildar Bansi Lal, Engineers.
Lance Havildar Rajender Singh, Artillery, Naik Sodhi Lal, Engineers, Naik Jagdish Raj, Intelligence Corps, Naik G.H. Hassan Khan, Engineers, Trainee Tashi Norbu, 3 Vikas.
Nao Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty):
Commodore Venkataraman Balachandran, Commander Dinabandhu Jena, Commander Chakkera Machaiah Belliapa, Capt K.P.M.S. Nair, Commander Sridhar Sulsi Karnik, Lt Shridhar Kotra, A.R. Rajasekharan Nair Mcera II, Dinesh Singh Poel (P).

Vayu Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty):
Group Capt Rajinder Singh (Flying Pilot), Wing Cdr Amit Aneja (Flying Pilot), Wing Cdr Ramesh Rai (Flying Pilot), Wing Cdr Mohit Kumar (Flying Pilot), Wing Cdr Suneel Shripad Soman (Flying Pilot), Wing Cdr Anthony Richard (Flying Pilot), Wing Cdr Birender Singh Dhanoa (Flying Pilot), Wing Cdr Karanvir Singh Pammar (Flying Pilot), Wing Cdr Sher Singh (Flying Pilot), Wing Cdr Girish Saini (Flying Pilot), Wing Cdr Anil Kuma Murgai (Flying Pilot), Sqn Ldr Sanjay Mittal (Flying Pilot), Sqn Ldr Nirmal Singh Jamwal (Flying Pilot), Sqn Ldr Arun Kumar Gandotra (Flying Pilot).

Bar to Vishisht Seva Medal:
Major-Gen Davinder Kumar, Signals, Brig Gonesh Chandra Hazarika, Army Medical Corps.
Vishisht Seva Medal:
Major-Gen Shantonu Choudhury, Artillery, Major-Gen Vinod Bhanot, Infantry, Major-Gen Belthangdy Srirang Keron, Signals, Major-Gen Satya Swaroop Sharma, Engineers, Brig Brij Mohan Bakshi, Engineers, Brig Yash Bhushan Verma, Engineers, Brig Charanjiv Singh Harika, Armoured Corps, Brig K.S. Randhawa, Engineers, Brig Summanwar Deepak Harishchandra, Infantry, Brig Tripat Singh, Infantry, Brig P.R. Gangadharan, Infantry, Brig Rajeshwar Singh, Infantry, Brig Pitambar Singh Sajwan, Infantry, Brig Amrit Kapur, Infantry, Brig Rajeshwar Singh, Infantry, Brig Uday Kumar Bapat, Infantry, Brig Ajay Nand Bahuguna, Infantry, Brigadier Narendra Deo Prasad, Infantry, Brig Narendra Singh Chaudhry, Artillery, Brig Vikram Madan, Infantry, Brig Ramesh Dixit, Infantry, Brig Sundararajan Radhakrishnan, Army Medical Corps, Brig Jawahar Lal Sharma, Army Dental Corps.

Col Girendra Singh, Grenadiers, Col Umang Kapoor, DRDO, Col Padam Budhwar, 5 Gorkha Rifles, Col Gopal Tippani Kaushik, Engineers, Col B.B. Sharma, DRDO, Col George Mathai, Gorkha Rifles, Col Raj Kapoor Kaushal, Dogra, Col Uday Pratap Singh, Bihar Regiment, Col Ravinder Singh Gujral, Artillery.

Col Prithvi Pal Singh Pahwa, Artillery, Col Charan Jit Pal, Engineers, Col Kalyan Kumar Roy Chaudhury, Mahar, Col Amar Dev Kaushal, Engineers, Col Jaspaul Singh, Intelligence Corps, Col Surinder Kumar Malik, Grenadiers, Col Satish Chander Singh Pathania, 9 Gorkha Rifles, Col Bordoloi Kumar, Madras, Col Rajiv Bhatnagar, 18 Assam Rifles, Col Rajinder Singh Pahwa, 23 Assam Rifles, Col Indra Jeet Narayan, 7/11 Gorkha Rifles, Col Sudhir Uppal, Kumaon, Col Jagdish Singh, Kumaon, Col Arjun Singh, 15 Garhwal Rifles, Col Anji Prasad Bandi, 5 Bihar, Col Kapil Dev, 5 Dogra, Lt-Col Ravindra Vasantrao Thodge I Gorkha Rifles, Lt-Col S. Sidharan Padingaryil, Guards, Lt-Col Devinder Paul Vats, Army Medical Corps, Major Gautam Narayan, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Cdr (Local Radm) Sachidananda Mahapatra, Cdr Vimal Kumar, Cdr Vijay Swarup Mathur, Cdr Keelvani Chinna Ammasai Mudali Ponnaiyan. Cdr Rangarajan Subbaiah, Cdr Harisimran Singh Malhi, Cdr Sanjay Gupta, Capt Parshotam Lal Masson, Surgeon Commander Arjuna Chetty Praveen Kumar, Commander John Philipose, Commander Anand Umesh Hoskote, Commander Meka Venkata Seshu Kumar, Commander Sheikh Mastan, Lt-Commander Vijay Kumar Raval, Niranjan Singh, MCERA, Mynuddin Syed, MCERA, Air Cdr Jagdarshan Singh Sandhu Flying (Pilot), Air Cdr Surjit Krishan Sharma, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Group Capt Parimal Banerjee Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Group Capt P.K. Kuruvilla, Aeronautical Engineering Electronics.

Group Capt Rajinder Kumar Mohan, Logistics, Group Capt Rakesh Yadav Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical), Group Capt Krishnamurthi Rajaram, Flying Pilot, Group Capt Thumpe Parampil Dominic Mathew, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Group Capt Jyoti Narayan Burma, Administration, Group Capt Ashok Kumar, Administration, Group Capt Madhusudan Banerjee, Flying Pilot, Group Capt C. Narasingarao Ranganath, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Group Capt Jagannath Rampal, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Group Capt Joseph Neri, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Wing Cdr Praveen Kumar Naithani, Administration, Wing Cdr Vipin Kumar Gupta, Medical, Wing Cdr Ved Mitra Upadhayay, Logistics, Wing Cdr Tarun Bhattacharya, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Wing Cdr Parthasarathi Roy, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Wing Cdr Arup Kumar Basu, Medical, Wing Cdr Srikrishna Flying Pilot, Wing Cdr Ashwani Bhakoo, Flying Pilot,Wing Cdr Sukhchain Singh, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Sq Ldr Manavendra Singh, Flying Pilot, Sq Ldr Majoj Kumar Dixit, Administration, Sq Ldr Arvinder Singh Grover, Administration, Warrant Officer Gaya Prasad, Weapon Fitter and Junior Warrant Officer Dulal Chand Adhikari, Workshop fitter (B).

Meanwhile, 33 BSF personnel have been awarded the President’s Police Medal which include five police medals for distinguished service and 28 police medals for meritorious service.

The awardees for Police Medal for Distinguished Service are Mr V.C. Goel, Inspector-Gen, Mr K.S. Walia, DIG, Mr K.K. Bhardwaj, Dy Director (Pers), Mr A.K. Sethi, DIG, and Mr P. Venkatswamy, Asst Director.