Ministry of Defence26-March, 2009 19:17 IST
President confers gallantry and distinguished service awards

   President, Smt Pratibha Devisingh Patil conferred eight Kirti Chakras, one Bar to Shaurya Chakra and twenty five Shaurya Chakras to serving armed forces personnel and others for displaying conspicuous gallantry, indomitable courage and extreme devotion to duty at a solemn ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhawan today.

            The President also conferred fifteen Param Vishisht Seva Medals, two Uttam Yudh Seva Medals, one Bar to Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and twenty five 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:-

GALLANTRY AWARDS

KIRTI CHAKRA

1.       IC-65167 Maj Nungleppam Buddhimanta Singh

2.       IC-50575 Lt Col Manish Shashikant Kadam (Posthumous)

3.       SS-40547 Capt Paras Limboo

4.       JC-412922 Sub Indra Bahadur Pun

5.       4364533 Naik Tape Yajo (Posthumous)

6.       IC-53634 Lt Col Osiris Das

7.       Shri Sashank Chandrasen Shinde (Posthumous)

8.       15318999 Sapper V Sathish

BAR TO SHAURYA CHAKRA

 

1.       GS-10876W Operator Excavating Machinery – II Zalim Singh (Posthumous)

SHAURYA CHAKRA

 

1.       13754936 Naik Mohd Sadiq

2.       IC-58405 Maj Sukesh Verma

3.       JC-841556 Naib Sub Kulwant Singh (Posthumous)

4.       15492544 Sowar Varinder Kumar Sharma (Posthumous)

5.       2693081 Grenadier Khillu Ram Meena (Posthumous)

6.       G/5008845 Rifleman Thoudam Sunil Singh

7.       IC-62023 Capt Navjot Singh Bal

8.       15567639W Sapper/Operator Executive Machinery Budhu Khan (Posthumous)

9.       4579259 Sepoy Ravinder Sharma

10.   IC-60843 Maj Srinivasan Vikram Cherian

11.   GS-170936P Supdt BR-II Mahendra Pratap Singh (Posthumous)

12.   GS-160047K Mason C. Govindaswamy (Posthumous)

13.   GS-174436P Driver Mechanical Transport Grade II Surinder Pal (Posthumous)

14.   Group Capt Suryakant Chintaman Chafekar (17013)

15.   IC-59235 Maj Amit Slathia

16.   GO-3423Y Assistant Executive Engineer (Civil) Santosh Kumar Singh (Posthumous)

17.   GS-168545L Driver Mechanical Transport Grade-II Jaikrit Singh Rawat (Posthumous)

18.   IC-67186 Capt Anil Dhiman

19.   GS-172264M Supdt Building & Road Grade-I M Sundaram (Posthumous)

20.   2998941 Lance Naik Banai Singh Gurjar

21.   IC-67664 Major Ravinder Singh

22.   IC-67443 Capt R Balakarthik

23.   SS-42418 Lt Prashant Siwach

24.   IC-63425 Capt Amitendra Kumar Singh

25.   2601184 Naik Manesh PV 

PARAM VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL 

1.       IC-23276 Lt Gen Noble Thamburaj

2.       IC-23291 Lt Gen Jayanta Kumar Mohanty

3.       IC-23302 Lt Gen Tej Kumar Sapru

4.       IC-24173 Lt Gen Vijay Kumar Singh

5.       Air Marshal Gautam Nayyar (13024)

6.       Air Marshal Sadasivan Radhakrishnan (12408)

7.       Air Marshal Shiv Kumar Bhan (12510)

8.       MR-02475 Lt Gen Yogendra Singh

9.       IC-24208 Lt Gen Amarjeet Singh Sekhon

10.   IC-24810 Lt Gen Rakesh Kumar Gupta

11.   IC28805 Lt Gen (Retd) Kulwant Singh Dogra

12.   IC-32703 Lt Gen (Retd) Krishna Pillai Sankaranarayana Pillai Venugopal

13.   V-00321 Lt Gen (Retd) Narayan Mohanty

14.   Vice Admiral Brij Krishna Kaul (50272-B) (Retd)

15.   Vice Admiral Rustom Faramroze Contractor (01224-F) (Retd)

UTTAM YUDH SEVA MEDAL 

1.       IC-27258 Lt. Gen. Rajinder Singh

2.       IC-27979 Maj. Gen. Jatinder Singh Bajwa 

BAR TO ATI VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL

1.       IC-24584 Lt Gen Baljit Singh Jaswal

ATI VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL

1.       IC-24656 Lt Gen Pradeep Khanna

2.       IC-24283 Lt Gen Rakesh Kumar Loomba

3.       IC-23665 Lt Gen Arun Kumar Nanda

4.       IC-25064 Lt Gen Shreedharan Shyam Kumar

5.       IC-25189 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee

6.       IC-25434 Lt Gen Shankar Ranjan Ghosh

7.       IC-25847 Maj Gen Surendra Pratap Rai

8.       IC-27265 Maj Gen Balakrishnan Venugopal Nair

9.       IC-27321 Maj Gen Kanwal Jit Singh Oberoi

10.   IC-27606 Maj Gen Ajay Kumar Singh

11.   IC-27608 Maj Gen Ram Kanwar Hooda

12.   IC-27990 Maj Gen Munish Sibal

13.   MR-03434 Maj Gen Hira Lal Kakria

14.   IC-30353 Maj Gen Syed Ata Hasnain

15.   IC-30503 Maj Gen Jai Prakash Nehra

16.   Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan (01587-F)

17.   Rear Admiral Bola Radhakrishna Rao (01249-N)

18.   Rear Admiral Ayalur Raman Radhakrishnan (01515-T)

19.   Rear Admiral Mohinder Kumar Badhwar (40474-K)

20.   Air Vice Marshal Jasbir Singh Panesar (13370)

21.   Air Vice Marshal Sapan Kumar Karmaker (13379)

22.   Air Vice Marshal Arup Raha (13910)

23.   Air Marshal Muthumanickam Matheswaran (14104)

24.   Air Commodore Gudipudi Rajendra Prasad (13236)

25.   Air Commodore Rao Biradavolu Keshav (14450)

Samir / RC / RAJ


(Release ID :48377)