NEW DELHI, Mar 23:
President Pranab Mukherjee presented Gallantry Awards and Distinguished Service Decorations to Defence personnel at a Defence Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan today.
Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Defence Minister A K Antony and Minister of State for Defence attended the ceremony.
The President, who is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces, conferred 14 Shaurya Chakras to Armed Forces personnel for displaying conspicuous gallantry, indomitable courage and extreme devotion to duty.
Out of the 14, three Shaurya Chakras were awarded posthumously. The awards were presented to the wives of the three Defence personnel.
The President also conferred 18 Param Vishisht Seva Medals, two Uttam Yudh Seva Medal, two Bar to Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and 17 Ati-Vishisht Seva Medals to senior officers of the Armed Forces for distinguished service of an exceptional order.
Following is the list of awardees :
Param Vishisht Seva Medal :
Lt Gen Gyan Bhushan, Infantry/Headquarters South Western Command, Vice Adm Anil Kumar Chopra, Air Marshal Jagdish Chandra, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Air Marshal Rajinder Singh, Flying (Pilot), Air Marshal (Retd) Simhakutty Varthaman, Flying (Pilot), Air Marshal (Retd) Satish Pal Singh, Flying (Pilot), Lt Gen Panemangalore Gopalakrishna Kamath, Infantry, Lt Gen Jatinder Singh Bajwa, Infantry, Lt Gen Munish Sibal, Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain, Lt Gen Gautam Ravindranath, Army Medical Corps, Lt Gen Anjan Mukherjee, Artillery Regiment, Lt Gen Jag Darshan Singh Rawat, Intelligence Corps/Military Intelligence Training School and Depot, Lt Gen (Retd) Ramesh Halgali, Infantry, Lt Gen (Retd) Dalbir Singh Sidhu, Armoured Corps, Lt Gen (Retd) Pradeep Bhalla, Army Ordnance Corps, Lt Gen (Retd) Surendra Pratap Tanwar, Artillery Regiment and Vice Adm (Retd) Kannan Bhagavatheswaran.
Uttam Yuddh Seva Medal :
Lt Gen Dalbir Singh, Infantry/Headquarters Eastern Command, Lt Gen Anil Singh Nandal, Infantry/Headquarters 16th Corps Bar To Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, Lt Gen Kotheneth Surendranath, Armoured Corps/Headquarters 33rd Corps, Vice Adm (Retd) Muttathil Puthanveetil Muralidharan, Lt Gen Swaminathan Murali Mohan, Army Dental Corps, Lt Gen Anil Malik, Armoured Corps/Armoured Corps Centre And School, Lt Gen Surinder Mohan Mehta, Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers/Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers, Secunderabad, Lt Gen Rajesh Pant, Corps of Signals/Military College of Telecommunication Engineering, Mhow, Lt Gen (Retd) Mandeep Singh, Army Medical Corps, Maj Gen Rajan Chaudhry, Army Medical Corps, Maj Gen Konsam Himalay Singh, Infantry/Headquarters 25th Infantry Division, Maj Gen Binoy Poonnen, Infantry/Headquarters 57th Mountain Division, Maj Gen Bipin Rawat, Infantry/Headquarters 19th Infantry Division, Maj Gen Narinder Pal Singh Hira, Infantry/Headquarters 10th Infantry Division, Maj Gen (Retd) Bal Krishan Sharma, Rear Adm Rakesh Pandit, Rear Adm Kishore Onkar Thakare, Rear Adm Sudhakar Thurumalla, Air Vice Marshal Narendra Bahadur Singh, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics), Air Commodore Sandeep Singh, Flying (Pilot) and Air Commodore Suresh Singh, Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics).
Shaurya Chakra :
Maj TN Unnikrishnan, 15th Battalion Dogra Regiment, Maj Saurabh Suyal, Armoured Corps/22nd Battalion Rashtriya Rifles, Squadron Leader Ajit Bhaskar Vasane Flying (Pilot), Nagendra Singh, Assistant Commandant, Office of The Commandant-207, Cobra At GC, CRPF, Durgapur, Vinoj P. Joseph, Assistant Commandant, Office of The Commandant-207, Cobra At GC, CRPF, Durgapur, Wing Commander Vatsal Kumar Singh Flying (Pilot), Flight Lt (Now Sqn Ldr) Gunadnya Ramesh Kharche, Flying (Pilot), Havildar Vir Singh, 13th Battalion Sikh Regiment, Maj Vijayendra Singh Yadav, Brigade of The Guards/21st Battalion Rashtriya Rifles, Maj Chandra Shekhar Singh, 666 Army Aviation Squadron (Reconnaissance and Observation) (Posthumous), Capt Dinesh Kumar, 9th Battalion Madras Regiment, Maj Manish Punj, Rajput Regiment/10th Battalion Rashtriya Rifles, Naik Rajeshver Singh, 16th Battalion Punjab Regiment (Posthumous), Naik Anil Kumar, 16th Battalion Punjab Regiment (Posthumous). (UNI)
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