President, Shri APJ Abdul Kalam conferred
three Kirti Chakras and twenty four Shaurya Chakras to armed forces personnel
for displaying conspicuous gallantry, indomitable courage and extreme devotion
to duty at a solemn ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhawan, here today.
The
President also conferred fifteen Param Vishisht Seva Medals, twenty two 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. Captain Vishal Bhandral (IC-61562), Garhwal Rifles / 14 Rashtriya
Rifles (Posthumous)
2. Lieutenant Natarajan Parthiban (SS-41837), 5 Jammu and Kashmir
Light Infantry (Posthumous)
3. Major Manish Hiraji Pitambare (IC-54327), 3 Parachute Regiment
(Special Forces), (Posthumous)
SHAURYA CHAKRA
1. GS 171799N Operator Excavating
Machinery Grade-II Ram Lal, Border Roads Organisation.
2. 9104223 Rifleman Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, 16 Jammu and Kashmir
Light Infantry
3. JC-449287 Subedar Samde Khan, 14 Grenadiers
4. JC-468990 Subedar Guman Singh, Rajputana Rifles / 43 Rashtriya
Rifles (Posthumous)
5. 9094954 Havildar Abrahim, Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry
/ 47 Rashtriya Rifles
6. 2489724 Sepoy Ranjit Singh, Punjab Regiment / 22 Rashtriya
Rifles (Posthumous)
7. Captain Amarjit Singh (SS-41046), 4 Parachute Regiment (Special
Forces)
8. Major Gopi Singh (IC-51468), Garhwal Rifles/14 Rashtriya Rifles
(Posthumous)
9. 13753810 Naik Sarwan Kumar, Jammu and Kashmir Rifles / Special
Group (22 Special Force), (Posthumous)
10. EX-GS-173840X Supdt Building
and Roads Grade-II, Ganesan M, Border Roads Organization (Posthumous)
11. Major Jung Bahadur Singh
(IC-55810), Army Service Corps / 38 Rashtriya Rifles
12. GS-153964L Superintendent
Buildings Roads Grade-II Vijay Raj, Border Roads Organisation (Posthumous)
13. Captain Krishnan Nishant
Nair (IC-60765) Bihar Regiment / 32 Assam Rifles
14. 15484670 Sowar Dhiraj Singh Armoured Corps/24 Rashtriya
Rifles (Posthumous)
15. 2897670 Rifleman
Kedar Singh Rajputana Rifles/43 Rashtriya Rifles (Posthumous)
16. Major
Virinder Sidhu (IC-60477) Rajput Regiment / 23 Rashtriya Rifles
17. 2682895 Havildar Santosh Kumar, 14
Grenadiers
18. Major Manvendra Singh (IC-63128), 20 Jammu
and Kashmir Rifles
19 Major Nayanjyoti Buragohain (IC-60107),
1 Naga Regiment
20. GS-166035L Operator
Excavating Machinery Grade-I, Shivaji Singh, Border Roads Organisation
(Posthumous)
21. 4002983 Sepoy Jatinder
Singh, Dogra Regiment/11 Rashtriya Rifles (Posthumous)
22. JC-307557 Naib Subedar
Mariapragasam Anthony Cruz, 201 Engineer Regiment (Posthumous)
23. Captain Aji Anthony (IC-62781),
Rajputana Rifles/57 Rashtriya Rifles (Posthumous)
24. 9107816 Rifleman Zahid
Abass Mir, 5 Jammu - Kashmir Light Infantry (Posthumous)
PARAM VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL
1. Lieutenant General Deepak Kapoor (IC-17622),
Artillery
2. Lieutenant General Daljeet Singh (IC-17644),
Armoured Corps
3. Vice Admiral Jagjit Singh Bedi, (01002-A)
4. Air
Marshal Kirti Shekhar Chaturvedi, (12100), Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics)
5. Air Marshal Pramod Kumar Mehra, (11581),
Flying (Pilot)
6. Air Marshal Bhushan Nilkanth Gokhale,
(11630), Flying (Pilot)
7. Lieutenant General Bachittar Singh
Dhaliwal (IC-17239), Engineers
8. Lieutenant General Mohan Pande (IC-19410),
Infantry
9. Lieutenant General Chander Bhan Vijan
(IC-19510), Artillery
10. Lieutenant General Utpal Bhattacharyya
(IC-24528), Engineers
11. Lieutenant General Satyevir Yadav (IC-26838),
Infantry
12. Lieutenant General Balbir Singh (IC-17587),
Infantry (Retired)
13. Lieutenant General Ashok Vasudeva (IC-17631),
Artillery (Retired)
14. Lieutenant
General Luxhmi Prakash Sadhotra (MR-03158), Army Medical Corps (Retired)
15. Air Marshal Arvind Kumar Nagalia, (11633)
Flying (Pilot) (Retired)
ATI VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL
1. Lieutenant General Milan Lalitkumar
Naidu (IC-19077), Infantry
2. Lieutenant
General Isac John Koshy (IC-23011), Artillery
3. Lieutenant
General Saibal Mukherjee (MR-02753), Army Medical Corps
4. Vice Admiral
Sushil Krishnan Nair, (01369-K)
5. Air Marshal
Suresh Chand Mukul, (12930) Flying (Pilot)
6. Major General
Kapileswar Prasad Dhal Samanta (IC-23375), Artillery
7. Major General
B Thambiah (IC-25757), Engineers
8. Major General
Omit Sarkar (IC-24270), Armoured Corps
9. Major General
Prem Krishan Goel (IC-24718), Artillery
10. Major General
Rajinder Singh Sujlana (IC-25126), Infantry
11. Major General
Vishnu Kant Chaturvedi (IC-25135), Artillery
12. Major General
Rabindran Krishna Swamy (IC-25538), Infantry
13. Major General
Prakash Menon (IC-27026), Infantry
14. Major General
Sawant Chandrashekhar Dattatray (IC-32460), Infantry
15. Major General
Raj Krishan Malhotra (IC-32550), Infantry
16. Major General
Jaspaul Singh (IC-32482), Intelligence Corps (Retired)
17. Rear Admiral
Dilip Deshpande, (40385-H)
18. Rear Admiral
Devendra Kumar Joshi, (01507-Z)
19. Rear Admiral
Ganesh Mahadevan (50344-T)
20. Air Marshal Venkataraman Ramamurthy Iyer
(12939) Flying (Pilot)
21. Air Vice Marshal
Madhusudan Banerjee, (13400) Flying (Pilot)
22. Brigadier
Naresh Kumar (MR-03044), Army Medical Corps
Vice President
Shri Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Defence Minister
Shri AK Antony, Home Minister Shri Shivraj Patil, Minister of State for Defence
Shri M Pallam Raju and Minister of State for Defence Production Rao Inderjit
Singh were also present on the occasion.
SKS / RAJ
(Release ID :26318)