Amar Jawan Jyoti

Written on May 14, 2008 – 5:03 pm | by Amar Jawan Jyoti |

President, conferred six Kirti Chakras and twenty Shaurya Chakras to serving and retired armed forces personnel and civilians for displaying conspicuous gallantry, indomitable courage and extreme devotion to duty, at a solemn ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhawan here today.

The President also conferred seventeen Param Vishisht Seva Medals, twenty seven 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. Shri Dayanand Pandey, Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh (posthumous)

2. Mohd. Shan Ahmed, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh (posthumous)

3. Shri Tarun Kumar Dutta, Assam (posthumous)

4. Naik Radhakrishnan C. (3995047) (posthumous)

5. Captain Subhash Chand Punia (SS-39785)

6. Captain Abhinav Handa (SS-41287)

SHAURYA CHAKRA

1. Sgt Jai Prakash Shukla, (737836), posthumous

2. Captain Sunil Yadav, (SS-40823)

3. Sepoy Rahul, (4281832), posthumous

4. Sapper Shinde Ramachandra Shivaji, (15326453), posthumous

5. Subedar Manohar P, (JC-439107)

6. Lance Naik Jyotish Prakash, (2693628), posthumous

7. Company Havildar Major Ramesh Chandra Pandey (14912497)

8. Maj Aman Oberoi, (IC-59741)

9. Maj Anshul Shukla, (IC-62851)

10. Maj Sanjay Kumar Tanwar (IC-55281)

11. Rifleman Raiece Ahmad Ganaie (9106682)

12. Maj Swapneesh Parihar, (IC-57912)

13. Lance Naik Ravinder Singh Malik, (12944610), posthumous

14. Sqn Ldr Shantanu Basu, (22947), posthumous

15. Naik Rajan Singh (2488248)

16. Maj Ishwar Singh Dahiya, (IC-65199)

17. Rifleman Abdul Hamid Chara, (12974149), posthumous

18. Havildar Udar Bhanudas Parvati, (2789267), posthumous

19. Assistant Commandant Anurag Kumar, (10385166)

20. Maj Virender Singh Salaria, (IC-58612)

PARAM VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL

1. Lt Gen Milan Lalitkumar Naidu (IC-19077)

2. Lt Gen Harcharanjit Singh Panag (IC-19834)

3. Vice Adm Nirmal Verma (01139-N)

4. Air Marshal Packiam Paul Rajkumar, (12018)

5. Air Marshal Pranab Kumar Barbora, (12375)

6. Air Marshal (retired) Jayant Satchidanand Apte, (11900)

7. Air Marshal (retired) Yeshwant Rao Rane, (12210)

8. Lt Gen Thomas Mathew, (IC-19848)

9. Lt Gen Mandhata Singh, (IC-19860)

10. Lt Gen Sarabjit Singh Dhillon, (IC-19868)

11. Lt Gen Pitamber Kishore Rampal, (IC-19931)

12. Lt Gen Saibal Mukherjee (MR-02753)

13. Lt Gen Sivasankara Pillai Sree Kumar (IC-19891)

14. Lt Gen Prakash Singh Chaudhary,(IC-23030)

15. Lt Gen (retired) Ajeet Singh Bajwa (IC-19004)

16. Lt Gen (retired) Puttammadam Rajah Gangadharan, (IC-19873)

17. Vice Adm Birinder Singh Randhawa, (40298-K)

ATI VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL

1. Lt Gen Samer Pal Singh Dhillon, (IC-23791)

2. Lt Gen Ranbir Kumar Chhabra, (IC-23814)

3. Lt Gen Chandroth Kunnumal Suchindra Sabu, (IC-24198)

4. Lt Gen Bharat Singh Sisodia, (IC-24716)

5. Lt Gen (retired) Girija Shankar Misra, (MR-02658)

6. Air Marshal Pramod Vasant Athawale, (13472)

7. Major Gen Soli Noshir Pavri, (IC-25062)

8. Maj Gen Roop Kishore Garg, (MR-03268)

9. Maj Gen Puthiyaveettil Madhusoodanan, (MR-02848)

10. Maj Gen Eppen Jacob Kochekkan, (IC-33015)

11. Maj Gen Shri Krishna Singh, (IC-27203)

12. Maj Gen Avinash Chander Soneja, (IC-27264)

13. Maj Gen Gyan Bhushan, (IC-27972)

14. Maj Gen Anil Chandra Chait, (IC-30016)

15. Maj Gen (retired) Pakala Venkateswarlu (IC-32041)

16. Maj Gen (retired) Jose Joseph Manavalan, (IC-24671)

17. Maj Gen (retired) Anil Kumar Mehra, (IC-24722)

18. Rear Adm Rajender Singh, (01427-T)

19. Rear Adm Harisimran Singh Malhi, (40449-B)

20. Rear Adm Pradeep Chauhan, (01610-H)

21. Rear Adm Niranjan Kumar Nadella, (50445-Y)

22. Air Vice Marshal Raj Kumar Vashisht, (13832)

23. Air Vice Marshal (retired) Narayanan Vijayakumar, (12725)

24. Air Vice Marshal (retired) Trichinapoly Subramanyam Raghu Raman, (12664)

25. Air Commodore Amarsingh Ganpatrao Patil (13272)

26. Air Commodore Gurvinder Jeet Singh Cheema, (14292)

27. Air Commodore Shamsher Jang Bahadur, (14570)