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Republic Day gallantry awards

Kirti Chakra IC-47050 Colonel Gurbir Singh Sarna Grenadiers/29 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) IC-54327 Major Manish Hiraji Pitambare 3 Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) (posthumous) IC-61562 Captain Vishal Bhandral Garhwal Rifles/14 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) SS-41837 Lieutenant Natarajan Parthiban 5 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (posthumous) 3392793 Havildar Manjit Singh 16 Sikh Regiment Shri Dhirendra Nath Pratap Singh CISF (posthumous).

IC-48760 Lieutenant Colonel Raj Kumar Kumaon Regiment/50 Rashtriya Rifles IC-51682 Lieutenant Colonel Vinay Rao Chauhan, 1 Gorkha Rifles/15 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) IC-55810 Major Jung Bahadur Singh, SM Army Service Corps/38 Rashtriya Rifles IC-55955 Major Naveen Bindal Army Air Defence/58 Rashtriya Rifles IC-58462 Major Shineesh Mukundan Grenadiers/29 Rashtriya Rifles IC-60477 Major Virinder Sidhu Rajput Regiment/23 Rashtriya Rifles IC-60765 Major Krishnan Nishant Nair Bihar Regiment/32 Assam Rifles IC-63128 Major Manvendra Singh 20 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles IC-60107 Captain Nayanjyoti Buragohain 1 Naga Regiment IC-62070 Captain Shashi Bhushan Singh, SM Corps of Engineers/55 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) IC-62781 Captain Aji Anthony, Rajputana Rifles/57 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) IC-64493 Lieutenant Thiyam Ibungochouba Luwang, 21 Parachute Regt (Special Force) JC-449287 Subedar Samde Khan 14 Grenadiers JC-307557 Naib Subedar Mariapragasam Anthony Cruz, 201 Engineer Regiment (posthumous) JC-519848 Naib Subedar Raj Bahadur Dogra Regiment/62 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) 2682895 Havildar Santosh Kumar 14 Grenadiers 3390996 Havildar Bhag Singh 16 Sikh Regiment 3989713 Lance Havildar Sishpal Singh Dogra Regiment/62 Rashtriya Rifles 4002983 Sepoy Jatinder Singh, Dogra Regiment/11 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) 4573865 Sepoy Satnam Singh, Mahar Regt/ 30 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) 76184 Rifleman Huidrom Bijendro Singh 7 Assam Rifles (posthumous) 2897670 Rifleman Kedar Singh Rajputana Rifles/43 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) 9107816 Rifleman Zahid Abass Mir 5 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (posthumous) 16012059 Rifleman Suresh Singh Solanki Rajputana Rifles/9 Rashtriya Rifles 15484670 Sowar Dhiraj Singh Armoured Corps/24 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) GS-153964l Superintendent Buildings/ Roads Grade-II Vijay Raj (posthumous) GS-166035l Operator Excavating Machinery Grade-I (OEM) Shivaji Singh (posthumous) GS-171799N, Operator Excavating Machinery Grade-II Ram Lal Shri Ram Karan Bhamer, Madhya Pradesh Shri Pankaj Sharma Superintendent of Police, Assam Shri Jangal Narayan Pandey, Assam

Bar to Sena Medal (Gallantry) IC-53272 Major Jagannath Nisonko, SM Corps of Engineers/10 Rashtriya Rifles IC-57132 Major Peeyush Vyas, SM 4 Gorkha Rifles/15 Rashtriya Rifles SS-38657 Major Uday Ganpatrao Jarande SM, Regiment of Artillery/ 4 Assam Rifles JC-449468 Subedar Sant Kumar, SM Grenadiers/39 Rashtriya Rifles

Sena Medal (Gallantry) IC-49062 Colonel Saroj Kumar Singh 20 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles IC-46313 Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Solankey, 14 Grenadiers IC-48258 Lieutenant Colonel Vinod Balakrishna Shrikhande, Maratha Light Infantry/56 Rashtriya Rifles IC-56242 Major Aibanjop Sooting Kumaon Regiment/13 Rashtriya Rifles IC-56701 Major Yadvinder Singh Parmar Punjab Regiment/22 Rashtriya Rifles IC-56972 Major Anil Kumar Joshi Dogra Regiment/11 Rashtriya Rifles IC-57180 Major P Shyam Sundar Madras Regiment/38 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) IC-58191 Major Vikram Dahiya Corps of Electronic and Mechanical Engineers/ 13 Rashtriya Rifles IC-58238 Major Manish Karki Rajput Regiment/10 Rashtriya Rifles IC-59117 Major Suman Majumder 3 Parachute Regiment (Special Force) IC-59711 Major Vikesh Kumar Regt of Artillery/9 Parachute Field Regt

IC-59713 Major Vipul Harsh Regiment of Artillery/34 Assam Rifles IC-59853 Major Krishna Siddu Belkud 16 Grenadiers IC-60141 Major Mukund MG Sikh Regiment/14 Assam Rifles IC-60666 Major Kamaldeep Singh Salaria Maratha Light Infantry/56 Rashtriya Rifles IC-62274 Major Javed Ali Khan 22 Maratha Light Infantry IC-62476 Major Tushar Garg Corps of Signals/42 Rashtriya Rifles IC-62477 Major Shiv Shankar Singh Hazari Corps of Engineers/14 Assam Rifles IC-64823 Major Jagdeep Singh Kapur Mechanised Infantry/9 Rashtriya Rifles IC-64933 Major Girish Parthan Brigade of the Guards/32 Assam Rifles IC-65048 Major Narender Prasad Punjab Regiment/3 (NH) BN Assam Rifles SS-39887 Major Gaurav Bali Regiment of Artillery/56 Rashtriya Rifles IC-62957 Captain Raj Singh Duhan Corps of Electronic and Mechanical Engineers/ 22 Rashtriya Rifles IC-63104 Captain Bimlesh Kumar 1 Naga Regiment IC-65180 Captain Preet Singh Corps of Engineers/7 Rashtriya Rifles

SS-40467 Captain Mohiteshwar Thakur 23 Rajput Regiment IC-64539l Lieutenant Vishal Chopra 21 Parachute Regiment (Special Force) AR-00217 Assistant Commandant Chatter Singh, 45 Assam Rifles JC-479218 Subedar Brij Mohan Singh 26 Rajput Regiment (posthumous) JC-634312 Subedar Man Bahadur Gurung 1/11 Gorkha Rifles JC-429550 Naib Subedar Manjit Singh Punjab Regiment/7 Rashtriya Rifles JC-529583 Naib Subedar Khushal Singh Garhwal Rifles/14 Rashtriya Rifles 1481848 Havildar Darbar Singh Corps of Engineers/62 Rashtriya Rifles 4184805 Havildar Harish Chander Singh 19 Kumaon Regiment 9923783 Havildar Tsering Angchok 9 Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) G/143696 Havildar Ram Bahadur Chhetri 14 Assam Rifles 13618060 Havildar Daya Kishan Joshi 3 Parachute Regiment (Special Force) 14382419 Havildar Gurmit Singh Army Air Defence/38 Rashtriya Rifles 121804 Leading Seaman Rabindra Kumar Sahoo, Indian Navy/15 Rashtriya Rifles 2600508 Naik Sanjay Pujeri Madras Regiment/38 Rashtriya Rifles 2689306 Naik Rajendra Singh 14 Grenadiers (posthumous) 2888932 Naik Rajendra Kumar Rajputana Rifles/9 Rashtriya Rifles 2994883 Naik Sita Ram Raghuwansi 26 Rajput Regiment (posthumous) 3396662 Naik Rachhpal Singh 16 Sikh Regiment 3991799 Naik Rajesh Kumar Dogra Regiment/62 Rashtriya Rifles 3993380 Naik Puran Singh Dogra Regiment/62 Rashtriya Rifles 4075794 Naik Man Singh Gusain Garhwal Rifles/14 Rashtriya Rifles 14703240 Naik Govind Singh 1 Naga Regiment 15124362 Naik Bipin Kumar Singh Regiment of Artillery/62 Rashtriya Rifles 3197872 Sepoy Amit Kumar Jat Regiment/34 Rashtriya Rifles 3404855 Sepoy Gurjant Singh 16 Sikh Regiment 3999450 Sepoy Sandya Kumar Dogra Regiment/62 Rashtriya Rifles 3999605 Sepoy Bali Ram 17 Dogra Regiment

4002533 Sepoy Sunil Kumar Dogra Regiment/62 Rashtriya Rifles 4279772 Sepoy Prem Kumar Roushan Bihar Regiment/24 Rashtriya Rifles 4280038 Sepoy Dilip Besra, Bihar Regiment/ 24 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) 4368234 Sepoy Binoy Kumar Roy Assam Regiment/42 Rashtriya Rifles 4572338 Sepoy Durgesh Kumar Mahar Regiment/30 Rashtriya Rifles 10525632 Sepoy Abdul Qayoum 153 Infantry Battalion (TA) Dogra 12944559 Sepoy Tilak Raj 159 Infantry Battalion (TA) Dogra 2896406 Rifleman Mukesh Kumar Rajputana Rifles/57 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) 2896507 Rifleman Ravindra Kumar Rajputana Rifles/9 Rashtriya Rifles 2897779 Rifleman Satyavir Singh Rajputana Rifles/9 Rashtriya Rifles 4082598 Rifleman Manoj Singh Rawat 18 Garhwal Rifles (posthumous) 9103417 Rifleman Parvaiz Ahmad Kumar Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry/62 Rashtriya Rifles 12954140 Rifleman Bashir Ahmad Khan 160 Infantry Battalion (TA) JAK RIF (posthumous) 15616599 Rifleman Rakesh Kumar Gupta Brigade of the Guards/61 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous)

16012580 Rifleman Liyakat Ali Rajputana Rifles/9 Rashtriya Rifles 16015546 Rifleman Sanjay Kumar Rajputana Rifles/9 Rashtriya Rifles G/5000581 Rifleman Rudevoyi Swuro 14 Assam Rifles (posthumous) 15336433 Sapper Harpal Singh, Corps of Engineers/57 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) 13621674 Paratrooper Puran Singh 3 Parachute Regiment (Special Force) 13622654f Paratrooper Rakesh Chandra 3 Parachute Regiment (Special Force)

Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry) 688505 Sergeant Shivasharnappa Hanamant Patil, Electrical Fitter

Param Vishisht Seva Medal

IC-17239 Lieutenant General Bachittar Singh Dhaliwal, AVSM, VSM, Corps of Engineers IC-17565 Lieutenant General Aditya Singh, AVSM**, Armoured Corps IC-17587 Lieutenant General Balbir Singh, VSM, Infantry (Retired) IC-17622 Lieutenant General Deepak Kapoor, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC, Regiment of Artillery IC-17631 Lieutenant General Ashok Vasudeva, AVSM, VSM, Regiment of Artillery.

IC-17644 Lieutenant General Daljeet Singh, AVSM, VSM, Armoured Corps IC-17759 Lieutenant General Devinder Dayal Singh Sandhu, Army Ordnance Corps IC-19038 Lieutenant General Kantamneni Sudhakar Rao, SC, SM, Corps of Engineers IC-19393 Lieutenant General Kunwar Daulat Singh Shekhawat, VSM, Armoured Corps IC-19410 Lieutenant General Mohan Pande, VSM, Infantry IC-19510 Lieutenant General Chander Bhan Vijan, Regiment of Artillery IC-19550 Lieutenant General Randhir Kumar Mehta, AVSM, YSM, VSM, Infantry IC-19845 Lieutenant General Dilip Nemajirao Desai, AVSM, VSM, Armoured Corps IC-19853 Lieutenant General Arvind Mahajan, AVSM, VSM, Corps of Electronic and Mechanical Engineers IC-24465 Lieutenant General Ashok Kumar Saini, AVSM, SM, Corps of Signals IC-24528 Lieutenant General Utpal Bhattacharyya, AVSM, Corps of Engineers IC-26838 Lieutenant General Satyevir Yadav, UYSM, avsm, infantry MR-03158 Lieutenant General Luxmi Prakash Sadhotra, AVSM, PHS, Army Medical Corps DR-10267 Lieutenant General Paramjit Singh, AVSM, VSM, Army Dental Corps Vice Admiral Jagjit Singh Bedi, UYSM, AVSM, VSM Surgeon Vice Admiral Punita Arora, SM, VSM, PHS (75894-K) Air Marshal Pramod Kumar Mehra, AVSM, VM (11581), Flying (Pilot) Air Marshal Bhushan Nilkanth Gokhale, AVSM, VM (11630), Flying (Pilot) Air Marshal Padamjit Singh Ahluwalia, AVSM & Bar, VM, VSM (11631), Flying (Pilot) Air Marshal Arvind Kumar Nagalia, AVSM, VM, VSM (11633), Flying (Pilot) Air Marshal Kirti Shekhar Chaturvedi, VSM (12100), Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics) Air Marshal Balatikalandra Uthaiah Chengappa, AVSM, VSM (12112), Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics).

IC-19868 Lieutenant General Sarabjit Singh Dhillon, AVSM, VSM, Infantry/HQ 15 Corps.

IC-19077 Lieutenant General Milan Lalitkumar Naidu, YSM, Infantry/Army War College IC-19931 Lieutenant General Pitamber Kishore Rampal, Infantry/HQ 9 Corps IC-23011 Lieutenant General Isac John koshy Regiment of Artillery IC-24194 Lieutenant General Manbir Singh Dadwal, VSM, Infantry.

IC-24255 Lieutenant General Amar Nath Aul, UYSM, Infantry MR-02753 Lieutenant General Saibal Mukherjee, Army Medical Corps IC-19506 Major General Pradeep Kumar Mahajan, Regiment of Artillery IC-23375 Major General Kapileswar Prasad Dhal Samanta, VSM, Regiment of Artillery IC-24219 Major General Ajay Kumar Singh Chandele, Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers IC-24270 Major General Omit Sarkar Armoured Corps IC-24718 Major General Prem Krishan Goel, VSM, Regiment of Artillery IC-24726 Major General Vinod Kumar Sharma, VSM, Corps of Engineers IC-25126 Major General Rajinder Singh Sujlana, Infantry IC-25135 Major General Vishnu Kant Chaturvedi, SM, Regiment of Artillery IC-25448 Major General Prasant Kumar Rath Regiment of Artillery IC-25457 Major General Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia, YSM, VSM, Regiment of Artillery IC-25538 Major General Rabindran Krishna Swamy, VSM, Infantry/HQ CIF (Delta) IC-25757 Major General B Thambiah, Corps of Engineers/HQ Eastern Command.

IC-25808 Major General Dushyant Singh Chauhan, Armoured Corps/HQ UB Area IC-25816 Major General Bikram Singh, SM, VSM, Infantry/HQ 10 Infantry Division IC-27026 Major General Prakash Menon, VSM Infantry/HQ CIF (Victor) IC-27530 Major General Shiv Kumar Sharma Corps of Electronics & Mechanical Engineers IC-28867 Major General Raj Kumar Sudan Regiment of Army Air Defence IC-29732 Major General Vijay Kumar Datta, SM, VSM, Infantry/HQ 25 Infantry Division IC-32357 Major General Virender Kumar Bhutani, VSM, Intelligence Corps IC-32460 Major General Sawant Chandrashekhar Dattatray, SM, Infantry IC-32482 Major General Jaspaul Singh, SM, VSM*, Intelligence Corps IC-32550 Major General Raj Krishan Malhotra, VSM, Infantry MR-02838 Major General Ooman Paul Mathew, SM, Army Medical Corps/Army Hospital (R&R) DR-10270 Major General Surrinder Bhushan Sehajpal, VSM, Army Dental Corps/CMDC HQ Central Command V-00321 Major General Narayan Mohanty, VSM, Remount and Veterinary Corps MR-03044 Brigadier Naresh Kumar, VSM Army Medical Corps Vice Admiral Krishan Nair Sushil, NM (01369-K) Rear Admiral Dilip Deshpande, VSM (40385-H) Rear Admiral Dalip Kumar Dewan (01396-Y) Rear Admiral Anil Kumar Chopra (01627-Y) Rear Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi, YSM, NM, VSM (01507-Z) Rear Admiral Ganesh Mahadevan, VSM (50344-T) Rear Admiral Rabinder Kumar Dhowan, YSM (01563-A) Acting Rear Admiral Aroume Andre (70192-A) Air Marshal Suresh Chand Mukul, VM, VSM (12930), Flying (pilot) Air Vice Marshal Venkataraman Ramamurthy Iyer (12939), Flying (pilot) Air Vice Marshal Sundaresan Swaminathan, VSM (13044), Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics) Air Vice Marshal Jagjit Singh Gandyok, VSM (13216), Administration Air Vice Marshal Navin Verma (13282) Aeronautical Engineering (electronics) Air Vice Marshal Dinesh Chandra Kumaria, VM, VSM (13366), Flying (pilot) Air Vice Marshal Madhusudan Banerjee, VM, VSM (13400), Flying (pilot) Air Commodore Keshav Gopal Bewoor, VM (13570), Flying (pilot) Air Commodore Atul Saikia, VM (13585) Flying (pilot)

Air Commodore Trikandiyur Kollath Venugopal, VM (13598) Flying (pilot) Air Commodore Pramod Kumar Roy, VM, VSM (14100), Flying (pilot)

Captain Rama Kant Pattanaik (01860-A)

IC-19898 Major General Bertrand William Kelson, VSM, Regiment of Artillery/school of Artillery MR-02670 Major General Munindra Srivastava, VSM Army Medical Corps IC-27314 Brigadier Anil Kumar Gulati, VSM Armoured corps MR-03247 Brigadier Dipankar Ganguly, VSM army medical corps/army hospital(R&R)

IC-23791 Lieutenant General Samer Pal Singh Dhillon, Regiment of artillery/HQ Northern Command IC-23266 Major General Gautam Dutt corps of engineers IC-23289 Major General Har Milap Singh armoured corps IC-23770 Major General Narsinh Shrikrishna Sapre, Regiment of artillery/HQ South Western Command IC-24210 Major General Kailash Chandra Mehta, corps of signals IC-25056 Major General Inderjit Singh corps of electronics and mechanical engineers.

IC-25878 Major General Knarsinha Mirji, Regiment of Artillery IC-27146 Major General Uma Shankar Prasad Sinha, Corps of Engineers/hq Training Command IC-27548 Major General Kamal Kishore Upadhyaya, Coala Military Nursing Service IC-24596 Brigadier Prabhat Kumar Saxena Kumaon Regiment IC-25594 Brigadiar Ma Devaiah Brigade of Guards/ NCOSF Academy IC-25814 Brigadier Madan Mohan Chaudhary Sikh Regiment/HQ 26 Infantry Division IC-25845 Brigadier Rajeev Kumar Gupta Corps of Engineers IC-25897 Brigadier William Isaaks Regiment of Artillery/officers Training Academy IC-27623 Brigadier Narinder Singh Malik Regiment of artillery/HQ 51 sub area.

Rajputana Rifles/HQ Central Command IC-27897 Brigadier Lalit Mohan Malhotra Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers IC-27942 Brigadier Narendra Bahadur Singh Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers IC-2968tronics and Mechanical Engineers IC-30076 Brigadier Sathish Chandra Nair Rajput Regiment IC-30089 Brigadier Narendra Singh, SM Maratha Light Infantry IC-30322 Brigadier Yeggina Vishnu Mohan, Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers IC-30383 Brigadier Tillu Singh Dhillon Brigade of the Guards/HQ CIF (Romeo) IC-30571 Brigadier Rajeev Datt Corps of Engineers IC-30780 Brigadier Satyendra Dixit Regiment of Artillery/HQ 28 Artillery Brigade IC-31797 Brigadier Kallappa Sangappa Kumbar, Madras regiment/HQ 36 sector IC-31917 Brigadier Surinder Mohan Mehta, SM, Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers/ HQ 15 corps IC-33034 Brigadier Shankar Prasad Menon Regiment of Artillery/ HQ 61 (i) Sub Area.

IC-33076 Brigadier Preetam Singh Charak Armoured Corps/HQ Southern Command IC-33235 Brigadier Deepinder Singh Armoured Corps/HQ 1 Corps IC-33238 Brigadier Gopal Singh Taragi Rajput Regiment/HQ Northern Command IC-33241 Brigadier Bhupindra Pal Singh Hundal, Army Ordnance Corps/HQ 15 Corps IC-33474 Brigadier Om Parkash Singh Pathania, Madras Regt/HQ Southwest Command IC-33520 Brigadier Kishan Singh 9 Gorkha Rifles/HQ 12 Corps IC-34437 Brigadier (Dr) Shiv Darshan Dutta Jagfs Department/HQ Central Command IC-34670 Brigadier Balwinder Singh Corps of Engineers/HQ 16 Corps IC-34755 Brigadier Chavan Vijay Kumar Keru Intelligence Corps IC-35376 Brigadier Gautam Deb Intelligence Corps/HQ Eastern Command MR-02986 Brigadier Karan Vir Singh Rana Army Medical Corps/HQ 15 Corps Mr-03440 Brigadier Avtar Singh Bath, SM Army Medical Corps/Command Hospital HQ Northern Command IC-35137 Colonel Pattiarimal Mohamadali Hariz, Mechanised Infantry IC-35226 Colonel Kocherlakota Gopala Krishna, Grenadiers IC-35472 Colonel Mnand Bughani, SM, Jammu and Kashmir Rifles IC-35480 Colonel Surinder Singh Jammu and Kashmir Rifles IC-35521 Colonel Sanjaya Saran, YSM Regiment of Artillery IC-37594 Colonel Harpal Singh Regiment of Artillery IC-38183 Colonel Gurmukh Singh, Corps of Electronics & Mechanical Engineers IC-38403 Colonel Shokin Chauhan Intelligence Corps IC-38645 Colonel Ajay Sah, SM Garhwal Rifles IC-38656 Colonel Stephen Jude Gracias Corps of Engineers IC-38753 Colonel Jaswinder Singh Sandhu 5 Gorkha Rifles/HQ Northern Commmand IC-39084 Colonel Lav Bikram Chand Corps of Signals IC-39522 Colonel Jaiveer Singh Negi Dogra Regiment IC-39656 Colonel Dinesh Sharma Gorkha Rifles IC-40064 Colonel Vishwas Chandrakant Chitre Regt of Artillery/HQ Northern Command IC-40312 Colonel Ali Adil Mahmood Armoured Corps/The President's Body Guard.

IC-41573 Colonel Prabir Sengupta 6 Assam Regiment IC-41580 Colonel Prabhjot Singh Mangat 103 Engineer Regiment IC-42421 Colonel Jose Peter Corps of Intelligence/567 and FS Unit IC-43294 Colonel Arun Kumar Pandey Jat Regiment/5 Rashtriya Rifles IC-43388 Colonel Mahesh Kumar Singh Mahar Regiment/51 Rashtriya Rifles MR-03690 Colonel Ravindra Katoch Army Medical Corps/Command Hospital HQ Northern Command MR-04126 Colonel Kuldip Raj Salgotra Army Medical Corps/166 Military Hospital Irla-186340237 Commandant Jatinder Singh Oberoi, Para Military Force/153 Border Security Force MR-05441 Lieutinant Colonel Jitendra Kumar Singh Parihar, SM, Army Medical Corps/Command Hospital, HQ Eastern Command MR-05774 Lieutinent Colonel Binod Kumar Sharma, Army Medical Corps/92 Base Hospital JC-306815 Subedar Anil Kumar P Corps of Engineers/Madras Engineer Group and Centre Commodore Bhaskar Ranjan Sen (01420-A) Commodore Vasudevan Balakrishnan Iyer (50536-B) Commodore Abraham Thachet Lucose (01634-N) Commodore Philip Edmund Van Haltren (01698-H) Commodore Ranveer Singh, NM (01708-F) Commodore Kurumanghat R Nair (50575-T)

Surgeon Commodore Bhagirath Singh Rathore (75849-H) Commodore Dilip P Kulkarni (01825-Y) Commodore Samir Saran Lal (40743-Y) Commodore (WHA) Raghuveer M Purandare (02072-H) Commodore Rajesh Kumar Wazalwar (40758-F) Captain Dinesh Mukund Deshpande (40844-A) Captain Venugopal Bharadwaj (40904-N) Captain Skand Kumar Pujari (50769-H) Surgeon Captain John D’souza (75237-T) Captain A Venugopal (02822-N) Captain Prodyut Kumar Banerjee (02649-W) Captain Kedambadi Satish Aiyappa (02034-Y) Commander Kumawat Yashwant (03054-R) Swapan Kumar Roy, MCPOAOF-I (203524-F) Air Commodore Kevin Fernandez (12660) Medical Air Commodore Karunakaran Nair Velaudhan Nair, (13082) Administration Air Commodore Pankaj Mehrotra (13316) Aeronautical Engineering (mechanical) Air Commodore Prashid Basu (13828) Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics) Air Commodore Ramesh Goyal (14567) Flying (Pilot) Group Captain Asit Kumar Adhikari (13889) Administrative/ air Traffic Controller Group Captain Pramod Shankarrao Shinde (14784), Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical)

Group Captain Jagjeet Singh (14814) Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics) Group Captain Gurudev Lingayya Hiremath (14947), Administration Group Captain Anup Kumar Patnaik (15295) Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics) Group Captain Yugal Kishore Negi (15351) Logistics Group Captain Divakar Paul Upot (15544) Flying (Pilot) Group Captain Prabir Chakraborty (15632) Aeronautical Engineering (Electronics) Group Captain Ravinder Sharma (15646) Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical) Group Captain Shirish Baban Deo VM (15681) Flying (Pilot) Group Captain Sudhanshu Rath (15726) Flying (Pilot) Group Captain Chandalingappa Sannachandappa Havaldar (16256) Administrative/Air Traffic Controller Group Captain Archan Kumar Bhattacharya (16322), Aeronautical Engineering (Mechanical) Group Captain Gedela Raveendranath (16985), Flying (Pilot) Group Captain Diptendu Choudhury (17335) Flying (Pilot) Wing Commander Devi Prasad Pani (16428) Administration (Fighter Controller) Wing Commander Ashok Kumar Sharma (16460), Accounts Wing Commander Anup Kumar Varhneya (17077), Education/ Para Jump Instructor Wing Commander Ravi Sharma (17785) Logistics Wing Commander Pankaj Mohan Sinha (17842), Flying (Pilot) Wing Commander Subramanian Sundar Rajan (17848), Flying (Pilot) 293603 Master Warrant Officer Rajinder Flight Gunner 616153 Master Warrant Officer Raghubir Singh Paul, Mechanical Transport Driver/Para Jump Instructor Go-01254k, Deputy Chief Medical Officer (Selection Grade) Oneil Kumar Panda Go-2457a Senior Administration Officer Bharat Bhusan Sharma

Bar to Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty) IC-43682 Colonel Anil Kumar Samantara, SM, Madras Regiment/4 Assam Rifles 2. IC-43842 Colonel Manik Kumar Das, SM 11 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry

Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty) IC-25466 Major General Govind Gopal Dwivedi, VSM, Infantry/HQ 57 MTN BDE IC-25825 Major General Chetinder Singh, VSM Armoured Corps IC-27971 Major General Sanjeev Loomba Armoured Corps IC-27236 Brigadier Surinder Singh Tonk, VSM, Grenadiers/HQ 31 Sub Area IC-30997 Brigadier Ashwini Kumar Bakshi, VSM, Bihar Regiment/HQ 93 INF Brigade IC-31118 Brigadier Balvinder Singh Sachar, VSM, Punjab Regiment/HQ 9 Sector Rashtriya Rifles IC-31638 Brigadier Om Prakash Kumaon Regiment/HQ 102 Infantry Brigade IC-31640 Brigadier Ramesh Kumar Rana Rajputana Rifles/HQ 192 Mountain Brigade IC-31658 Brigadier Uthiramadan Mani Rajavelu, Rajputana Rifles/HQ 109 INF BDE IC-31680 Brigadier Mahabir Singh Patial Punjab Regiment/HQ 163 Infantry Brigade IC-31712 Brigadier Perumbilavil Shankaran Ravindranath, 1 Gorkha Rifles/HQ 10 Sector Assam Rifles IC-60765 Major Krishnan Nishant Nair Bihar Regiment/32 Assam Rifles IC-63128 Major Manvendra Singh 20 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles IC-60107 Captain Nayanjyoti Buragohain 1 Naga Regiment IC-62070 Captain Shashi Bhushan Singh, SM Corps of Engineers/55 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) IC-62781 Captain Aji Anthony, Rajputana Rifles/57 Rashtriya Rifles (posthumous) IC-64493 Lieutenant Thiyam Ibungochouba Luwang, 21 Parachute Regt (special force)

IC-31736 Brigadier Rajiv Bhalla Jat Regiment/HQ 121 Infantry BDE Group IC-34001 Brigadier Rumel Dahiya Kumaon Regiment/HQ 100 Mountain BDE IC-34098 Brigadier Harminderjit Singh Sachdev 1 Gorkha Rifles/HQ 2 Sector Rashtriya Rifles IC-34687 Brigadier Surya Subbavadhanulu Dasaka Corps of Engineers/HQ CE (P) Beacon IC-35040 Brigadier Rakesh Mohan Mittal Corps of Engineers/HQ A&N Zone IC-36200 Brigadier Balbir Singh Pama 3 Gorkha Rifles/HQ 161 Infantry Brigade IC-36269 Brigadier Anil Singh Nandal 5 Gorkha Rifles (FF)/HQ 1 Sect Rashtriya Rifles IC-36276 Brigadier Surender Singh Rana Regiment of Artillery/HQ 57 MTN ARTY BDE IC-36413 Brigadier Israel Arumy Raj Grenadiers/HQ 11 Sector Rashtriya Rifles ic-37877 Colonel Dinesh Sharma Rajput Regiment/10 Rashtriya Rifles IC-41911 Colonel Rajinder Pal Singh 8 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles IC-42046 Colonel Shivinder Singh Grenadiers/39 Rashtriya Rifles IC-42336 Colonel Ajai Kumar Singh 1/11 Gorkha Rifles IC-42780 Colonel Atul Kumar Singh Grenadiers/12 Rashtriya Rifles

IC-42971 Colonel Rajinder Singh Rajput Regiment/44 Rashtriya Rifles IC-43331 Colonel Subhash Chander Panwar 4 Sikh Regiment IC-43547 Colonel Rajeev Kumar Singh Kumaon Regiment/26 Rashtriya Rifles IC-44261 Colonel Brij Gopal, Dogra Regiment/62 Rashtriya Rifles IC-45193 Colonel Atul Kaushik 4 Gorkha Rifles/15 Rashtriya Rifles IC-45677 Colonel Sunil Kumar, 1 Naga Regiment IC-47208 Colonel Ranjan Mahajan Rajputana Rifles/ 9 Rashtriya Rifles IC-47253 Colonel Gajendra Joshi Garhwal Rifles/36 Rashtriya Rifles IC-47351 Colonel Rajesh Tyagi, 4 Jat Regiment IC-51412 Lieutenant Colonel Bhamare Jayant Narvir, Corps of Engineers/53 Road Construction Company MR-05644 Lieutenant Colonel Surajit Basu Army Medical Corps/Command Hospital (Northern Command)

NR-19890 Major Saroja Kumari Army Medical Corps/Infantry School JC-602444 Subedar Pemba Tamang 1 Gorkha Rifles/infantry School JC-374572 Naib Subedar Nagendra Narayan Choudhary, Corps of Signals/11 Information Warfare Battalion (posthumous) JC-NYA-4003754 Naib Subedar Vijay Kumar Dogra Regiment/infantry School 9924827 Rifleman Sonam Dorjay 5 Ladakh Scouts

Nao Sena Medal (Devotion to Duty) (12) Commodore Kollengode Sivaramakrishnan Subramanian (40674-r) Commodore Sankaran Mampully, VSM (01748-Y) Commodore Seebhavi Patelramesh Reddy, VSM (01358-K) Surgeon Captain Yash Pal Monga (75204-T) Captain Balakrishnan Suresh (50705-N) Captain (TS) Laishram Bimolchand Singh (01726-Y) Captain Satishkumar N Ghormade (02671-W) Captain Jaipal Singh Beniwal (02262-R) Commander Puruvir Das (03463-W) Commander Abhijit V Joshi (03544-B) Lieutenant Commander Mohit Goel (41749-H) Ram Kumar Jhagrolia, MCMECH(R) I (202047-Z) Vayu Sena Medal (devotion to duty) (15) Air Commodore Gurdarshan Singh Joneja (13958-A) Group Captain Kulkarni Raghavendra (17161), flying (pilot) Wing Commander Sunil Kumar Bhatia (17360), flying (pilot)

Wing Commander Eslin Paul D'couto (17863), flying (pilot) Wing Commander Shiv Ratan Singh (18083) flying (pilot) Wing Commander Ajay Rathore (18258), flying (pilot) Wing Commander Sanjeev Raj (18276), Flying (pilot) Wing Commander Balakrishnan Balachandran (18561) flying (pilot) Wing Commander Kothapalli Venkata Rama Raju (18573), flying (pilot) Wing Commander Ashutosh Lal (18785) flying (pilot)

Wing Commander Tejinder Singh (18806) flying (pilot) Wing Commander Vishwajit Vasudev Dedgaonkar (18813), flying (pilot) Wing Commander Praveen Keshav Vohra (19162), flying (pilot) Wing Commander Harpreet Singh Basra (19174), flying (pilot) Squadron Leader Jasbir Singh (22702) flying (pilot) President's Tatrakshak Medal (gallantry) Comdt Ganti Mahapatra Sreenivas, TM (0205-P) Tatrakshak Medal (Gallantry) Rajesh Kumar, Pradhan Navik (QA) (02413-P) Rajiv Kumar Yadav, Uttam Navik (RO) (04379-H) Tatrakshak Medal (Meritorious) Comdt Sanjay Aryavir (0236-L) Pradeep Kumar, Adhikari (RP) (00991-H) V Sunil Kumar, Sahayak Engineer (SW) (07396-P)

Customs officers honoured

Following is the list of officers and their present postings, who have been selected for grant of the Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for specially distinguished record of service, on the occasion of Republic Day 2007:

A. Exceptionally Meritorious Service at the Risk of Life:

Late Shri Tarun Kumar Dutta, I.O., DRI, Shillong;

Specially Distinguished Record of Service: Commissioners/Additional Directors-General Sri Banibrata Bhattacharya, ADG (Sys) Mumbai; Additional Commissioners/ Additional Directors/ Joint

Commissioners/ Joint Directors: 1. Sri C.L. Mahar, Director, NCB, Jodhpur; 2. Sri Satya Prasad Sahu, Additional Director (Sys), New Delhi.

Deputy Directors/ Deputy Commissioners/ Assistant Directors/Assistant Commissioners: Sri Ved Prakash Singh, Asstt. Director, DRI, DZU, New Delhi.

Superintendents/ Senior Intelligence Officers: Sri Ganesh Ramchandra Desai, S.I.O. DGCEI, Pune; Pratyush Ghorai, S.IO. DGCEI, Kolkata; Sri Rakesh Kumar Kapur, Supdt. DG (Audit), New Delhi; Bhim Bali Kunwar, Supdt., CCE, Meerut-1; Ram Adhar, Supdt. CCE, Delhi-1; Sri K.C. Appachu Supdt., CCE, Bangalore-I, Sri Aspi Hosang Hansotia, S.I.O., DRI, Ahmedabad; Ashfaq Ahmad, Supdt. D.O.Vigilance, New Delhi.

9. Smt. Mannur Venkateshwarai Iyer Baby, Asstt. E.O. Chennai.

10. Sri Sudhir Mane, S.I.O., DGCEI, Mumbai.

11. Sri Ghanshyam Singh Khati, S.I.O. DGCEI, Ahmedabad.

12. Sri Ivin K. George, S.I.O.,DGCEI, Bangalore.

13. Sri Vijay Pal Singh, S.I.O. DGCEI, DZU, New Delhi.

Inspectors/Intelligence Officers

1. Late Shri S. Nobil Lal, I.O. DGCEI, Kochi.

2. Sri L. Parthsarthi, IO. DGCEI, Chennai.

3. Sri Shivdas S. Nair, I.O. DGCEI, Mumbai.

4. Sri Gigimon Philip, I.O. DGCEI, Ahmedabad.

5. Sri Rajeev Gupta, Inspector, CCE, Delhi-1.

6. Sri P.K. Balakrishnan, Inspector, Service Tax Chennai.

7. Sri Atul K. Pachkhede, Inspector, CCE, Raigad.

8. Smt. N. Ananthie, Inspector, CCE, Chennai-IV.

9. Sri Onkar Mishra, Inspector, CBN, Gwalior.

10. Sri Sanjay Kumar Singh Tomar, I.O. DRI, Lucknow.

11. Sri Sekhar Das, I.O. D.R.I., Kolkata.

12. Sri P.L.C. Zachariah, I.O. DRI, Mumbai.

13. Sri A. Chandrasekaran, I.O. DRI, Chennai.

Driver/Hawaldar

Sri Tukaram Chaudhary, Hawaldar, CCE, Bhopal.

Mohammed Riazuddin Ahmed, Additional Inspector General (prisons) (Training & Development) Telangana Region, Hyderabad; Sunil Kumar Gupta, Law Officer, Prison Headquarters, Central Jail, Tihar, National Capital Territory of Delhi, Ashok Kumar Khare, Deputy Inspector General of Prisons, Jail Headquarters, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Hari Shanker Singh, Deputy Inspector General of Prisons, Barelly, Uttar Pradesh.

President's Correctional Service Medal for Gallantry: Krishna Pal Chandila, Deputy Jailor, District, Jail, Agra, UP.

Correctional Service Medal for Gallantry: Vikas Sharma, Warder, District, Jail, Dharmasala, HP.

Correctional service medals for meritorious service: Ganivada Satyanarayana, Head Warder, Central Prison Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh; K Krishna Murthy, Chief Head Warder, Central Jail, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh; Mohd Jahangir, Chief Head Warder, central Jail, Cheriapalli, Andhra Pradesh; T. Doraiah, Head warder, central Prison, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh; Rakesh Sharma, Deputy Superintendent, Gr II; Central Jail, Tihar, National Capital Territory of Delhi.

P. Gangadharan, Grade - I Warder, Central Prison, Chennai, Tamilnadu; Moohmmad Umar, Head Warder, Distt. Jail, Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh; Paras Nath Singh, Head Warder, Central Jail, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh; Arun Sharma, Warder, Central Jail, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh; Kishun Lal, Warder, Central Jail, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh; Ambika Yadav, Warder, Central Jail, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh; Satish Chandra Srivastva, Head Warder, Model Jail, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh;Gaya Prasad Mishra, Warder, Model Jail, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

The Home Guards and Civil Defence Medals for distinguished Service and meritorious service have been announced for the Republic Day, 2007.

The awardees are as follows:-

Name States/UTs

Central Ministry: Chandra Kanta Das (Asom); Sushil Chandra Boruah (Asom); Hamant Rajwade (Chhatisgarh); Govind Singh Tomar (Delhi); Dilip Kumar Midha (Delhi); Kikkeri Vasantha Balaram (Karnataka); H.K. Mahadevappa (Karnataka); Manohar Lal Hanotiya (Madhya Pradesh); Bhupendra Singh Markam (Madhya Pradesh); Sushil Kumar Tiwari (Madhya Pradesh); Ajai Kumar Singh, Deo Nath Ram, Indra Pal Singh, Akram Shamsi, all (Uttar Pradesh); Yogambar Singh (Uttaranchal).

Home Guards and Civil Defence Medal for meritorious service: Karra Jaya Kumar (Andhra Pradesh); Ishwar Chandra Bhattacharya (Assam); Pradip Kumar Khemka (Assam); Anil Kumar Joshi (Chattisgarh); S.K. Shokeen (Delhi); Mohan Chandra Maheshwri (Delhi); Ramadas Sonu Morgaonkar (Goa); Uday Shankar Kudtarkar (Goa); Ulhas Balaappa Talwar (Goa); Harsukhlal Ramjibhai Pala (Gujarat); Surinder Singh (Haryana); Sube Singh (Haryana); Sat Pal (Haryana); Ram Singh Thakur (Himachal Pradesh); Mrs Sudesh Kumari Rana (Himachal Pradesh);